Grigoras Law built these pages for the people who search for a deadline or a figure before they call anyone; namely, the person who has just read something false about themselves, the publisher who has just received a notice, the party holding an arbitral award, the party who has just lost a motion or a trial, the person who wants to know how long they have to sue, the judgment creditor working out the interest, and lawyers outside the field. They are general information about Ontario law, reviewed when the law changes, and they do not say whether you have a claim. The Insights pages carry the firm's writing; these pages carry its arithmetic.
One page per tool, under the practice area it serves. Each page states what it computes, quotes the provisions it applies, lists the caveats that can change the answer and names the date the rules were last reviewed.
The notice, the limitation periods and the publisher's retraction under the Libel and Slander Act.
The defamation practiceEnter the day a publication came to your knowledge, and the kind of publication, and the page computes the last day to serve the six (6) week notice under s. 5(1), the last day to issue the claim under s. 6 with the one (1) year look-back, the two (2) year period under the Limitations Act, 2002, and, where a notice has been served, its timeliness and the publisher's three (3) day retraction window under s. 5(2). Sundays and statutory holidays are rolled forward under the Legislation Act, 2006, a claim date that falls on a day the court office is closed rolls forward to the next day it is open, and the caveats that change the dates light up for the kind of publication you chose.
OpenTen (10) items drawn from the cases on what a valid notice contains and how it is served; namely, that it is in writing, names every intended plaintiff, identifies the publication, specifies the matter complained of, covers every publication, is addressed to every intended defendant, is served as a statement of claim is served, is served within the six (6) weeks, demands a retraction if one is wanted, and diaries the three (3) months. Tick, copy or print it beside your draft.
OpenThe thirty (30) days to appeal or set aside an award, and the other periods that run from its receipt, under the Arbitration Act, 1991 and the ICAA.
The arbitration practiceEnter the day you received the award, and the page computes the last day to appeal or apply to set it aside under s. 47(1) (thirty (30) days, which the court cannot extend), the thirty (30) days to request a correction, an additional award or an award on costs under ss. 44 and 54(3), the s. 17(8) application on a preliminary ruling, the earliest day of enforcement under s. 50(3) and the ten (10) year limit under s. 52(3), and the fifteen (15) days to serve a motion for leave under s. 49 and rule 61.03.1. For an international arbitration it computes the three (3) months under art. 34(3) of the Model Law, the article 33 requests, the art. 16(3) request and the ten (10) years under s. 10 of the ICAA. A last day that falls on a Sunday or a holiday rolls forward under the Legislation Act, 2006, as does a last day for a step taken in the court office that falls on a day the office is closed, Saturday included; the periods under the Rules roll forward under rule 1.03.
OpenWhich court hears a civil appeal in Ontario, whether leave is needed, and the last day to start it, under the Courts of Justice Act and the Rules of Civil Procedure.
The appeals practiceChoose who made the order (a Superior Court judge, an associate judge, the Small Claims Court, the Divisional Court, the Court of Appeal or a tribunal), say whether it is final or interlocutory, enter the day it was made, and the page states the route under the Courts of Justice Act (the court, as of right or with leave, one judge or three) and computes the thirty (30) days for a notice of appeal under rule 61.04, the seven (7) days under rule 62.01, the fifteen (15) days for a motion for leave under rules 61.03.1 and 62.02, the filing, cross-appeal, transcript, perfection and factum dates that follow, the thirty (30) days for judicial review and the sixty (60) days, July excluded, for leave to the Supreme Court of Canada. Time runs from the day the decision was pronounced rather than the day the order was entered, and the page says so.
OpenThe last day to start a civil claim under the Limitations Act, 2002, and the interest on a claim or a judgment under the Courts of Justice Act.
The litigation practiceChoose the kind of claim (a debt or damages claim, a demand loan, contribution and indemnity, an injury on a municipal road or sidewalk, snow or ice on private premises, a claim against the Province, a claim by or against an estate, or defamation), enter the day of the act or omission and, where it is later, the day you first knew of the claim, and the page computes the second anniversary of discovery under s. 4 of the Limitations Act, 2002, with the s. 5(2) presumption that discovery was the day of the act, beside the fifteen (15) year ultimate period under s. 15. It stops the clock for the pandemic suspension under O. Reg. 73/20 (182 days on the Court of Appeal's count, the 183-day count shown beside it), for a claimant who was a minor or incapable, and restarts it on a written acknowledgment under s. 13; it computes the ten (10) day notice to a municipal clerk, the sixty (60) day notice for snow and ice, the sixty (60) days before suing the Crown and the two (2) years from death under the Trustee Act; and a last day on which the court office is closed, Saturday included, rolls forward under the Legislation Act, 2006.
OpenEnter the amount, the day the cause of action arose, the day the proceeding was commenced and, where an order has been made, the day of the order, the costs and the day of payment, and the page computes prejudgment interest under s. 128 of the Courts of Justice Act at the rate for the quarter the proceeding was commenced, postjudgment interest under s. 129 at the rate for the quarter of the order, on the order, the prejudgment interest and the costs, and the total owing, by the Ministry's arithmetic, with the five (5) per cent of rule 53.10 for non-pecuniary loss in a personal injury action, the Insurance Act exception for motor vehicle actions, the six (6) month method of s. 128(3) for past pecuniary loss, and the court's discretion under s. 130 noted beside each figure. The Ministry's table of rates for every quarter since 1985 is on the page and is updated each quarter.
OpenA tool is a page with a short form. The facts you enter stay in your browser; the rules are written into the page with their sources; the result appears at once with the rule that produced it.
Each date or figure carries the section it comes from and the count behind it, so that a lawyer can check the arithmetic against the statute. Time is computed under s. 89 of the Legislation Act, 2006, and a last day that falls on a Sunday or a statutory holiday runs to the next day that is not one; the page says when that has happened.
The arithmetic runs in your browser. There is no account, no form that reaches us and no record of what you entered. Print the result or copy it; when you leave the page, it is gone.
A tool cannot know when a publication could have been discovered with reasonable diligence, whether a publisher is within s. 7, or when an award was received. It assumes the facts you enter are the facts, and it does not say whether you have a claim or a defence. Each page shows the date its rules were last reviewed.
Each page gives general information, computed in your browser from what you enter, about Ontario law as it stood on the review date shown in its results. The pages are not advice about your matter. Grigoras Law is a civil litigation and corporate boutique in Toronto, acting in defamation, arbitration and commercial litigation across Ontario, for the clients who have retained it. Grigoras Law does not give advice about a deadline to anyone who is not its client. A message, a telephone call or an intake form about a date on one of these pages does not retain the firm, does not create a lawyer-client relationship, will not be answered on the deadline, and does not stop any period from running; only the step itself does that. If you want advice on your own dates, retain a lawyer, and do it well before the earliest date shown; the retainer comes first, the advice after.
