Pub Bans and Sealing Orders
November 15, 2013
2013 SKCA 122
A Saskatchewan Court of Appeal judge has dismissed a publication ban application in a protracted securities hearing and awarded costs to the Leader Post.
November 5, 2013
R. v. Haevischer 2013 BCSC 2014
A coalition of media organizations including Postmedia, Global and the CBC united in opposing this application for a publication ban. The applicant "failed to establish that the publication ban he seeks is necessary...application dismissed."
August 29, 2013
R. v. Wilks 2013 CM 4017
This decision comes from a Military Court in which it was deemed functus to modify a publication ban. The decision also sets out the practice for future applications.
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.
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 ...