Trial judge disallows defence based on alleged, but un-produced, electronic communications In R. v. Papasotiriou-Lanteigne (no hyperlink currently available, but reasons will likely appear here), Justice R.F. Goldstein of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice heard a pre-trial application by … Continue reading →

Tweets found to be thinly veiled personal attack: Case about Rebel Media fund-raising will proceed to trial The Ontario Court of Justice, in Levant v Day, dismissed a motion under Ontario’s Anti-SLAPP provisions in the Courts of Justice Act, which … Continue reading →

Australian court holds Google liable as “publisher” of defamatory statements contained in search results and auto-complete In Google Inc. v. Duffy, the Supreme Court of South Australia upheld a lower court finding that Google was liable in defamation as a … Continue reading →

Bill replaces previous Cyber-safety Act found to be unconstitutional* After the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia, in Crouch v Snell, found the province’s Cyber-safety Act to be unconstitutional as an unjustified infringement of Charter s. 2(b) and s. 7 rights, … Continue reading →