Cyber Libel and Canadian Courts
Canadian Internet Defamation Rulings
Cases published to February 22, 2018
This is a list of Canadian court decisions involving the publication of allegedly defamation expression via the Internet.
This list is not exhaustive: (a) court rulings are not always reduced to writing; (b) the law reports and electronic databases do not contain all written court rulings; and (c) jury verdicts are not published in the law reports or in electronic legal databases.
The Canadian Internet defamation decisions are currently indexed under the following topic headings:
A.
Jurisdiction
B.
Notice of Intended Action
C.
Limitations Defences
D.
Defamation Damage Awards
E.
Substantive Defences
F.
Pre-Trial Injunctions
G.
Anonymous Defendants
H.
Miscellaneous Cyber Libel Issues
As new Canadian Court rulings are pronounced and listed on this page, new topic headings may be added.
Under each topic heading, the Canadian decisions are listed in reverse chronological order (i.e. the most recent decision is listed first).
Wherever possible, a hypertext link is provided to the full text of a Canadian decision. A link will in most cases lead to a free, publicly-accessible website.
In a few instances, the link is not to another website but to an Adobe Acrobat version of the judgment stored on this website.
A number of decisions have no link. Most are from the
Ontario Superior Court of Justice which does not display its decisions on
its website.
Most of the Canadian decisions which pre-date April 1, 2004 are discussed in Roger D. McConchie and David A. Potts,
Canadian Libel and Slander Actions (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2004). References to relevant pages in the book are given below.
See also:
I.
Commonwealth Decisions of Interest
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