Can fraudulent concealment be used to postpone the two year limitation period prescribed by s. 38(3) of the Trustee Act?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from B. Estate, 2010 ONSC 3614 (CanLII):
Justice MacLeod-Beliveau relied on Giroux Estate v. Trillium Health Centre [See Note 4 below] for the principle that the common law doctrine of fraudulent concealment can be used to postpone the two-year limitation period prescribed by s. 38(3) of the Trustee Act.
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