M.(K.) v. M.(H.)
The Supreme Court of Canada held that incest by a parent is both assault and battery and a breach of fiduciary duty, and that limitation periods run only when the plaintiff can reasonably discover the wrong and its cause.
- Reasonable discoverability principle
- Statute of limitations (limitations act)
- Laches/acquiescence
- Accrual of cause of action
- Remedies (damages and punitive)
- Reasonable-discoverability