{"id":848,"date":"2018-10-28T19:36:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-28T23:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=848"},"modified":"2018-10-28T19:36:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T23:36:38","slug":"ontario-an-expired-time-bar-doesnt-make-a-jurisdiction-inappropriate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=848","title":{"rendered":"Ontario: an expired time-bar doesn&#8217;t make a jurisdiction inappropriate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The decision in <a href=\"http:\/\/canlii.ca\/t\/htjgm\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Leon v. Volkswagen <\/em><\/a>stands for the principle, potentially useful in jurisdictional disputes, that a foreign jurisdiction may be more appropriate than Ontario even if the proceding would be time-barred in the foeign jurisdiction:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[50]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Indeed, Canadian courts have done exactly that. Even where the proposed Ontario action was time-barred in the foreign jurisdiction, our courts have deferred to comity and to the more appropriate (foreign) forum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decision in Leon v. Volkswagen stands for the principle, potentially useful in jurisdictional disputes, that a foreign jurisdiction may be more appropriate than Ontario even if the proceding would be time-barred in the foeign jurisdiction: [50]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Indeed, Canadian courts have done exactly that. Even where the proposed Ontario action was time-barred in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=848\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario: an expired time-bar doesn&#8217;t make a jurisdiction inappropriate<\/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":[81,508,509,510],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","tag-conflict-of-laws","tag-foreign-jurisdictions","tag-jurisdiction","tag-you-have-no-jurisdiction-here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","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=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}