What is the test for determining whether a defendant has an interest in extending the limitation period of a claim?
Ontario, Canada
The following excerpt is from Pringle v Channel 11 Limited Partnership, 2015 ONSC 2699 (CanLII):
As stated succinctly in Peixeiro v. Haberman, 1997 CanLII 325 (SCC), [1997] 3 S.C.R. 549 at para. 34, whatever interest a defendant may have in the universal application of a limitation period must be balanced against the concerns of fairness to the plaintiff …
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