{"id":1274,"date":"2025-08-13T10:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:31:06","slug":"ontario-court-of-appeal-confirms-a-disability-doesnt-necessary-suspend-the-limitation-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=1274","title":{"rendered":"Ontario: Court of Appeal confirms a disability doesn&#8217;t necessary suspend the limitation period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/canlii.ca\/t\/jzwnv\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Bell v. Long<\/em><\/a> makes the point that a disability <em>per se <\/em>does not necessarily mean a person is incapable within the meaning of <a href=\"https:\/\/canlii.ca\/t\/31q#sec7\" target=\"_blank\">s. 7 of the Limitations Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Court of Appeal decision in Bell v. Long makes the point that a disability per se does not necessarily mean a person is incapable within the meaning of s. 7 of the Limitations Act.<\/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":[30,574,650,27,43],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","tag-disability","tag-incapacity","tag-its-not-a-tumour","tag-ontario-act-s-7","tag-ontario-court-of-appeal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","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=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1275,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}