{"id":1102,"date":"2020-05-30T16:06:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2020-05-30T16:06:35","modified_gmt":"2020-05-30T20:06:35","slug":"ontario-court-of-appeal-on-adding-a-claim-after-the-limitation-periods-expiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"Ontario: Court of Appeal on adding a claim after the limitation period’s expiry"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Court of Appeal decision in The Catalyst Capital Group Inc. v. Dundee Kilmer Developments Limited Partnership<\/em><\/a>\u00a0follows Klassen <\/em><\/a>for its statement on adding a claim after the expiry of the limitation period:<\/p>\n

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[<\/a>75]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I accept this submission. The governing principles were stated by this court in\u00a0Klassen v. Beausoleil<\/em>,\u00a02019 ONCA 407<\/span><\/a>,\u00a034 C.P.C. (8th) 180<\/span>, at paras.\u00a027-30<\/a><\/span>:<\/p>\n

\u00a0An amendment [to a statement of claim] will be statute-barred if it seeks to assert a \u201cnew cause of action\u201d after the expiry of the applicable limitation period:\u00a0North Elgin<\/em>, at paras. 19-23, 33;\u00a0Quality Meat Packers<\/em>, at para. 65. In this regard, the case law discloses a \u201cfactually oriented\u201d approach to the concept of a \u201ccause of action\u201d \u2014 namely, \u201ca factual situation the existence of which entitles one person to obtain from the court a remedy against another person\u201d:\u00a0North Elgin<\/em>, at para. 19;\u00a0Quality Meat Packers<\/em>, at para. 65.<\/div>\n

An amendment does not assert a new cause of action \u2014 and therefore is not impermissibly statute-barred \u2014 if the \u201coriginal pleading … contains all the facts necessary to support the amendments … [such that] the amendments simply claim additional forms of relief, or clarify the relief sought, based on the same facts as originally pleaded\u201d:\u00a0Dee Ferraro<\/em>, at paras. 4, 13-14;\u00a0North Elgin Centre Inc.<\/em>, at paras. 20-21;\u00a0East Side Mario’s Barrie<\/em>, at paras. 31-32;\u00a0Quality Meat Packers<\/em>, at para. 65. Put somewhat differently, an amendment will be refused when it seeks to advance, after the expiry of a limitation period, a \u201cfundamentally different claim\u201d based on facts not originally pleaded:\u00a0North Elgin<\/em>, at para. 23.<\/p>\n

The relevant principle is summarized in Paul M. Perell & John W. Morden,\u00a0The Law of Civil Procedure in Ontario<\/em>, 3rd ed. (Toronto: LexisNexis, 2017), at p. 186:<\/p>\n

A new cause of action is not asserted if the amendment pleads an alternative claim for relief out of the same facts previously pleaded and no new facts are relied upon, or amount simply to different legal conclusions drawn from the same set of facts, or simply provide particulars of an allegation already pled or additional facts upon [which] the original right of action is based.<\/p>\n

In the course of this exercise, it is important to bear in mind the general principle that, on this type of pleadings motion, it is necessary to read the original Statement of Claim generously and with some allowance for drafting deficiencies:\u00a0Farmers Oil and Gas Inc. v. Ontario (Ministry of Natural Resources)<\/em>,\u00a02016 ONSC 6359<\/span>,\u00a0134 O.R. (3d) 390 (Div. Ct.)<\/span><\/a>, at para.\u00a023<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  The Court of Appeal decision in The Catalyst Capital Group Inc. v. Dundee Kilmer Developments Limited Partnership\u00a0follows Klassen for its statement on adding a claim after the expiry of the limitation period: [75]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I accept this submission. The governing principles were stated by this court in\u00a0Klassen v. Beausoleil,\u00a02019 ONCA 407,\u00a034 C.P.C. (8th) 180, at … Continue reading Ontario: Court of Appeal on adding a claim after the limitation period’s expiry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[297,43],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","tag-adding-a-claim","tag-ontario-court-of-appeal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}