2015 September 15

Buck v. Morris, Buck v. Morris, 2015 ONSC 5632

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice, in the course of this judgment dismissing this defamation action over a  website article on various grounds including qualified privilege, made the following finding of fact about the scope of publication :  “… the publication of the Statement on the Town’s website was a publication effectively to the world at large. This Court can take judicial notice of the fact that with any search engine such as Google, anyone could have accessed the Statement published on the Town website. This was a publication to persons who did not have a legally recognized interest or duty to receive it.”