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 ...

November 8, 2012
Commission of Inquiry on the awarding and management of public contracts in the construction industry
The Charbonneau Commission partially lifted a publication ban and released extracts of the testimony of Lino Zambito, former head of Quebec construction firm, Infrabec.

August 16, 2012
Coltsfoot Publishing Limited v Foster-Jacques, 2012 NSCA 83
The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal (NSCA) overturned a Supreme Court (Family Division) decision which had imposed a sealing order on an entire court file in a divorce proceeding. The NSCA ordered that Coltsfoot Publishing was prohibited from publishing, disclosing, communicating or using information in the court file that might lead to identity theft; something which Coltsfoot had already agreed to do, at both the trial level and at the Court of Appeal.

July 12, 2012
Manitoba Commission of Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Phoenix Sinclair
The Honourable E.N.(Ted) Hughes, Commissioner of the Manitoba Commission of Inquiry into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Phoenix Sinclair denied a request for a publication ban.

June 29, 2012
R. v. T.(B.) 2012 NSPC 60
In Nova Scotia, a youth court judge trying a youth for murder (provincial court), refused to entertain a ban application from an adult co-accused who has been committed to be tried in Supreme Court on the basis she had no jurisdiction.