Does the limitation period apply to the unjust enrichment claim?

Ontario, Canada


The following excerpt is from McConnell v. Huxtable, 2014 ONCA 86 (CanLII):

In Kerr, the court dealt at length with unjust enrichment. At para. 33, Cromwell J. held that there is no separate line of authority for family cases developed within the law of unjust enrichment and reaffirmed the statement in Peter v. Beblow, 1993 CanLII 126 (SCC), [1993] 1 S.C.R. 980, at p. 997, that “the basic principles governing the rights and remedies for unjust enrichment remain the same for all cases.” I refer to this point because, although this is a family law case, the determination of the limitation period issue will have ramifications beyond family law. The resolution of the limitation period issue cannot turn on the fact that this is a family law case. Thus, in my view, the fact that the Family Law Act prescribes a limitation period for claims under that Act cannot be determinative of the limitation period issue.

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