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New defamation defence of responsible communication on matters of public interest

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • January 6 2010

Two hundred years after the death of Thomas Paine, and three days before Christmas, the Supreme Court of Canada issued a pair of decisions that marks the most important advance in freedom of expression, and in particular, freedom of the press, in recent Canadian law

Liability for hyperlinks to defamatory material

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • February 26 2010

A recent decision of the British Columbia Court of Appeal is vital to every business that operates a website or publishes material on the Internet

An overview of business defamation

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • November 16 2011

Traditionally, a reputation carefully fostered over decades could be lost in minutes through a defamatory comment

More protection from liability to website owners: Supreme Court of Canada says referencing a publication by hyperlink is not publication

  • Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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  • Canada
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  • October 25 2011

The Supreme Court of Canada has just issued a judgment on the increasingly important issue of Internet defamation: Crookes v. Newton, 2011 SCC 47