June 27, 2013
R. v. Wiens 2013 BCSC 1538
The editor of the Penticton Info Tel news website, Marshall Jones, applied to the court for the release of an exhibit during a murder trial. The accused, Keith Wiens, was alleged to have written a ...

June 17, 2013
Shtaif v. Toronto Life Publishing Co. Ltd. 2013 ONCA 405
Background In Shtaif, the plaintiff businessmen alleged that the defendants defamed them by publishing an article in May 2008, first in the print version of Toronto Life magazine and later on Toronto Life’s website. The plaintiffs ...

May 17, 2013
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation et al v. Saint John Police Force et al NBQB 167
Justice William T. Grant, of the New Brunswick Court of Queen's Bench quashed a publication ban, previously granted by a provincial court judge, on the names of the persons searched and of the murder suspect in the on-going investigation into the 2011 murder of Richard Oland.

May 1, 2013
Casses v Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2013 BCCA 200
The BC Court of Appeal has rejected an attempt by a plaintiff surgeon to restrict a defamation action to narrow pleaded meanings (such as "was negligent in his treatment of Edith Backer") and has upheld a defence that pleaded different meanings and particulars of other surgical cases raising competence issues.

April 18, 2013
Plimmer v. Google Inc. 2013 BCSC 681
In this proposed class action proceeding, the plaintiff applied, on an ex parte basis, to have their application for preliminary court approval of the plaintiff’s retainer agreement heard and for a temporary sealing order and publication ban ...