{"id":625,"date":"2017-09-28T18:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T22:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=625"},"modified":"2017-09-28T18:04:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T22:04:58","slug":"ontario-presumed-prejudice-from-an-expired-limitation-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=625","title":{"rendered":"Ontario: presumed prejudice from an expired limitation period"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Kurke&#8217;s decision in <a href=\"http:\/\/canlii.ca\/t\/h4vtn\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Trudeau v. Cavanagh<\/em><\/a> has a helpful summary the principles of the presumption of prejudice arising from an expired limitation period:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[24]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0A presumption of prejudice arises if the amendment is sought after the expiration of a relevant limitation period.\u00a0 This presumption will be determinative unless the moving party can demonstrate, on the facts of the case, that there exist special circumstances to rebut the presumption that the responding party will suffer prejudice from the loss of a remedy as a result of the expiration of a limitation period:\u00a0<em>Frohlick v. Pinkerton Canada Ltd.<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2008\/2008onca3\/2008onca3.html\">2008 ONCA 3 (CanLII)<\/a>,\u00a088 O.R. (3d) 401 (C.A.), at paras. 17, 22, 28;\u00a0<em>Churly v. Budnick<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onsc\/doc\/1997\/1997canlii12260\/1997canlii12260.html\">1997 CanLII 12260 (ON SC)<\/a>,\u00a0[1997] O.J. No. 2909\u00a0(Master\u2019s Ct.), at paras. 31, 34.<\/p>\n<p>[25]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0On the other hand, a court need not give effect to prejudice that may occur to a responding party that has arisen because of the responding party\u2019s own failure to do something it reasonably could or ought to have done.\u00a0 Thus, where prejudice is said to arise from expiration of a limitation period, if the responding party could or should have taken steps itself within the time frame of the limitation period, but failed to do so, it cannot complain of prejudice if the moving party seeks amendment after the limitation period has run.\u00a0 Such \u201cself-created prejudice\u201d displaces the presumption:\u00a0<em>2054509 Ontario Ltd. v. Corrent<\/em>,\u00a0<span data-path=\"\/en\/reflex\/2738011.html\">[2012] O.J. No. 5810<\/span>\u00a0(Master\u2019s Ct.), at paras. 35-37;\u00a0<em>Desjardins v. Mooney<\/em>,\u00a0<span data-path=\"\/en\/reflex\/1344749.html\">[2001] O.J. No. 697 (Sup. Ct.), at para 21<\/span>; and\u00a0<em>cf<\/em>.\u00a0<em>Chiarelli v. Wiens<\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.canlii.org\/en\/on\/onca\/doc\/2000\/2000canlii3904\/2000canlii3904.html\">2000 CanLII 3904 (ON CA)<\/a>,\u00a046 O.R. (3d) 780 (C.A.), at para. 15.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Kurke&#8217;s decision in Trudeau v. Cavanagh has a helpful summary the principles of the presumption of prejudice arising from an expired limitation period: [24]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0A presumption of prejudice arises if the amendment is sought after the expiration of a relevant limitation period.\u00a0 This presumption will be determinative unless the moving party can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=625\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario: presumed prejudice from an expired limitation period<\/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":[374,372,373],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","tag-prejudice","tag-prejudice-from-an-expired-limitation-period","tag-presumption-of-prejudice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","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=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}