If a limitation period is extended after the expiry of the limitation period, is it appropriate to amend the statute of limitation period?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Ioannou v. Evans, 2008 CanLII 117 (ON SC):
If Kostecki v. Goodman, supra, is authority that the collection of circumstances in the case at bar constitutes the rare special circumstances sufficient to justify an amendment after the expiry of a limitation period, then I think it was wrongly decided, and I will not follow it.
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