Tag: Ontario

The long running and high profile “blogger defamation” case of Baglow v Smith has been determined in the defendant’s favour.  In a judgment handed down on 23 February 2015 ( [2015] ONSC 1175), the Ontario Superior Court of Justice held that the operators of a right wing message board were publishers of defamatory material concerning a left wing blogger.  However, the claim failed because defendants were entitled to rely on the defence of “fair comment”,  The case addressed, for the first time, a number of issues concerning “blogging and the law of defamation. Continue reading