It’s time for some limitations pedantry!<\/p>\n
In Corona Steel Industry Private Ltd. V. Integrity Worldwide Inc.<\/em><\/a>, the court held that “an action for recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment is treated as an action upon a simple contract for purposes of determining the limitation period.”<\/p>\n This was so until 2004 when the current Limitations Act<\/a> came into force. The Limitations Act does not distinguish between categories of contracts, or causes of action.\u00a0 The Limitations Act asks when the plaintiff discovered a “claim” (as defined by s. 1).\u00a0 The Court of Appeal made the point explicit in addressed the issue squarely in Independence Plaza<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n I think perhaps counsel had relied on a previous version of the Law of Limitations<\/em>, or some obsolete jurisprudence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s time for some limitations pedantry! In Corona Steel Industry Private Ltd. V. Integrity Worldwide Inc., the court held that “an action for recognition and enforcement of a foreign judgment is treated as an action upon a simple contract for purposes of determining the limitation period.” This was so until 2004 when the current Limitations … Continue reading Ontario: simple contracts haven’t been material to the limitations scheme for…nearly 15 years<\/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":[238,334,333,198],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","tag-blog-pedantry","tag-enforcement-of-foreign-judgments","tag-foreign-judgments","tag-please-excuse-my-pedantry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","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=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":822,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}