Defamation, Media Privilege and the Charter: Cusson v. Quan and Grant v. Torstar Corp – Part 2
April 24th, 2009
Cusson, Quan, Jameel. Freedom of Expression, Grenier, Reynolds, Richard Butle
Archive For Entries On Quan (2009)
Defamation, Media Privilege and the Charter: Cusson v. Quan and Grant v. Torstar Corp – Part 1
April 23rd, 2009
(Part 1 of 3) Introduction The Supreme Court of Canada is in the midst of a little spring cleaning in the law of defamation. Cusson v Quan was a case concerning an Ontario provincial police officer who on his own initiative travelled to New York City following the events of September 11, 2001, to assist [...]
Quan v. Cusson Goes Before The Supreme Court
February 17th, 2009
Today (February 17) the Supreme Court is hearing arguments in what could prove to be a sea change in defamation law. (For more background on the case see the January 20th, 2009 post from Eric Baum.) The appellants in this case, the Ottawa Citizen, are arguing that the Supreme Court’s past decisions, denying the media [...]
Cusson v. Quan: The Responsible Journalism Defence?
January 20th, 2009
The traditional Canadian law of defamation has, itself, developed a bad reputation. While some commentators have gone so far as to call it a “mausoleum of antiquities peculiar to the common law and unknown elsewhere in the civilized world…a labyrinth of uncertainties, of false clues, blind alleys, and unexplored passages,” others have been kinder, simply [...]
