Defamation: What Can You Get?
Potential Award Aside of obvious requests for an apology, a refuting statement, a prohibition against further spread and an order to remove the defamatory information from public access, claimants often…
Defamation: Claim and Defence
Claim There is no separate claim in defamation in the Civil Code of Quebec. The usual article 1457 of Civil Code of Quebec (on civil responsibility) applies. The requirements are,…
Defamation: where you can find it
Defamation: where you can find it The word « defamation » brings us in the context where the rights guaranteed by the Quebec Charter are clashing: freedom of expression against one’s privacy,…
Online Defamation
Recent events around an infamous Facebook page calling hundreds of people “potential sexual aggressors” brought the public discussion about defamation and legal protection against on top. The good old question…