Potential Liability For Hyperlinking: Crookes v Newton
Considering putting a hyperlink on your website or blog? The case Crookes v Newton, 2009 BCCA 392 [Crookes], may give you pause to reconsider. Although the British Columbia Court of Appeal...
Category: Defamation and Libel
Tenure-ous logic? Slavutych v Baker, 35 Years Later
Journalists, lawyers, police officers, and students of evidence law are still awaiting the Supreme Court of Canada’s (“SCC”) decision on the scope of ‘informer-journalist’ privilege in R v The National Post, 2008 ONCA 139 [National...
Grant v Torstar Corp: Responsible communication on matters of public interest
On December 22, 2009, the Supreme Court of Canada (“SCC”) issued its judgment in Grant v Torstar Corp, [2009] 3 SCR 640 [Grant v Torstar] establishing a new “responsible communication” defence...
