{"id":465,"date":"2016-08-02T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=465"},"modified":"2016-08-02T09:18:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T13:18:00","slug":"ontario-ignorance-is-not-bliss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Ontario: Ignorance is not bliss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/canlii.ca\/t\/gs9cn\" target=\"_blank\">Unegbu v. WFG Securities of Canada<\/a>, <\/em>the Court of Appeal reminds us that\u00a0ignorance of the law won&#8217;t stop\u00a0the limitation period from running:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[<a class=\"paragAnchor\" name=\"par4\"><\/a>4]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 [&#8230;]\u00a0It is well-established that a lack of appreciation of the legal significance of the facts grounding a claim does not stop the limitation from running: <em>Nicholas v. McCarthy Tetrault<\/em>, <span class=\"reflex3-block\" data-path=\"\/en\/reflex\/950510.html\"><span class=\"reflex3-alt\">[2008] O.J. No. 4258<\/span> at para. 27<\/span>, aff\u2019d <span class=\"reflex3-block\"><a class=\"reflex3-caselaw\" href=\"http:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2009\/2009onca692\/2009onca692.html\"><span class=\"reflex3-alt\">2009 ONCA 692 (CanLII)<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Unegbu v. WFG Securities of Canada, the Court of Appeal reminds us that\u00a0ignorance of the law won&#8217;t stop\u00a0the limitation period from running: [4]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 [&#8230;]\u00a0It is well-established that a lack of appreciation of the legal significance of the facts grounding a claim does not stop the limitation from running: Nicholas v. McCarthy Tetrault, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=465\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario: Ignorance is not bliss<\/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":[9,252,43],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","tag-discovery","tag-ignorance-isnt-bliss","tag-ontario-court-of-appeal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","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=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}