defamation
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Les Mal-Famés
Je voudrais commenter brièvement sur la nouvelle qu’une Montréalaise qui s’était opposée à feu le projet péquiste de Charte de la honte dans les médias, Dalila Awada, poursuit certaines personnes et organisations qui, suite à son intervention, l’ont décrite comme associée à des organisations musulmanes, voire une agente d’extrémistes islamistes. Ce faisant, soutient-elle, ils auraient Continue reading
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All Quiet on the Western Front
The confrontation between freedom of expression and protection of individual reputation by the law of defamation is as good an example of interminable global legal trench warfare as any. (Well, except in the United States, where one battle proved largely decisive in favour of free speech.) In Canada, freedom of expression has made some gains Continue reading
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Hate Speech and Group Libel
As I promised yesterday, I want to share a few thoughts on some arguments that Jeremy Waldron makes in The Harm in Hate Speech, his book making the case for criminalizing hate speech. (Prof. Waldron’s Holmes Lectures, from which the book grew, were published in the Harvard Law review, and are available here.) I will address Continue reading
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There’s Nothing in That Name
This morning, the Supreme Court delivered a decision that is a further small step in the debate about the right of litigants to privacy and the right of the public to know what goes on in our courtrooms. I blogged about these issues here and here. The applicant in the case, A.B. v. Bragg Communications Inc., 2012 SCC 46, is Continue reading
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Quasi-Constitutional Rights?
What are “quasi-constitutional rights”? Is this a meaningful, a useful concept? Justice Lebel’s comments in a decision released last week by the Supreme Court raise the question. The decision, Éditions Écosociété Inc. v. Banro Corp., 2012 SCC 18 is one of three released last Wednesday, all dealing with questions of when Canadian courts can, and when they should, Continue reading
Double Aspect 