New Defamation Defence Balances Charter Values
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]November 27, 2007 By Brian Babcock Ontario’s Court of Appeal recently decided to recognize the English defence of “public interest responsible journalism” in a claim of defamation. The case involved a series of articles in the Ottawa Citizen, which the Plaintiff argued were untrue and defamatory. The paper could not rely upon defences of truth and […]