{"id":319,"date":"2015-10-03T17:24:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T21:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=319"},"modified":"2015-10-03T17:24:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T21:24:03","slug":"ontario-discovery-doesnt-require-knowledge-of-liability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=319","title":{"rendered":"Ontario: Discovery doesn&#8217;t require knowledge of liability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a settled principle of discoverability that knowledge of liability isn&#8217;t\u00a0necessary to commence the limitation period.\u00a0 We now have a succinct statement of this principle from the Court of Appeal in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/canlii.ca\/t\/gl6k6\" target=\"_blank\">Lochner v. Toronto<\/a><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p>[<a class=\"paragAnchor\" name=\"par7\"><\/a>7]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The fact that Mr. Lochner does not know whether the defendants are culpable or liable for the disclosure does not prevent the limitation period from running. Knowledge of liability on the part of the injured person is not part of discoverability for the purposes of the running of the limitation period.\u00a0 It is the lawsuit itself which is the process by which liability for an act is determined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a settled principle of discoverability that knowledge of liability isn&#8217;t\u00a0necessary to commence the limitation period.\u00a0 We now have a succinct statement of this principle from the Court of Appeal in Lochner v. Toronto: [7]\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The fact that Mr. Lochner does not know whether the defendants are culpable or liable for the disclosure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/?p=319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ontario: Discovery doesn&#8217;t require knowledge of liability<\/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":[9,160,159,43],"class_list":["post-319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontario","tag-discovery","tag-good-quotations-for-the-factum","tag-liability","tag-ontario-court-of-appeal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/limitations.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}