(Part 3 of 3) Introduction This is the third and final installment of an article on the Supreme Court’s current review of qualified privilege in the common law of defamation. The first installment considered various formulations of qualified privilege in the common law of defamation, and why the formulation applied by the Ontario Court of [...]

A quiet, but dramatic change is taking place in Canadian media law as courts across the country are beginning to shift the law of defamation in favour of freedom of speech. Last year, the Ontario Court of Appeal in Cusson v. Quan 2007 ONCA 771 took the bold move of creating an entirely new defence [...]