Baglow v. Smith
Case Law- Country
- Country Location
Latitud: 62.07067909300361
Longitud: -107.72231232402085
- Country Location (vinculado Case Law)
- Canada
- Decision Date
- 23 feb 2015
- Case Status
- Cerrado
- Case Outcome (Procedural)
- Dismissed
- Case Outcome (Disposition)
- Judgment in Favor of Defendant
- Keywords
- Defamation
- Freedom of Expression
- Judicial Body
- First Instance Court
- Case Number
- [2015] O.N.S.C. 1175
- Case Summary
Ontario's Superior Court applied Canada's fair comment test to the allegedly defamatory comments made by a blogger on a politically conservative blog about a blogger on a politically liberal blog. The Court found that although the statements met Canada's three-prong test for defamation, given the entire context of the blog post, a reasonable person would discern that the comments were an expression of opinion rather than an assertion of fact, and therefore were protected under Canada's four-prong fair comment.
- Case Significance
The decision does not establish a binding or persuasive precedent within its jurisdiction.
- Source Name and URL
- Columbia Global Freedom of Expression
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