Thanks Amanda. Your info about Cause of Action is important as we were thinking that the commencement date was maybe the date we first wrote to council about claiming damage. However from what you are saying, it's the date the damage actually occurred. So if the flood affected our property say in January 2010 but the claim we made against council was in October 2010, then the start date for the limitation period would be the January date. Correct?
Just to let you know, most of us don't want to go to litigation. But we just wanted to know when our window of opportunity for litigation expired.
Thanks very much for your help. Cheers, Bob