Colleagues:
The Law Commission of Ontario recently released four commissioned consultation papers—whose authors include members of this listserv—as part of a major reform initiative called Defamation Law in the Internet
Age. A fifth paper will be released later. Here are the titles of the four released ones:
Defamation Law in the Age of the Internet: Young People’s Perspectives by Jane Bailey and Valerie Steeves, Co-Leaders of the eQuality Project, University of Ottawa
Is “Truthtelling” Decontextualized Online Still Reasonable? Restoring Context to Defamation Analysis in the Digital Age by Karen Eltis, Professor of Law, University
of Ottawa
Internet Intermediary Liability in Defamation: Proposals for Statutory Reform by Emily Laidlaw, University of Calgary, Faculty of Law, and Hilary Young, University
of New Brunswick, Faculty of Law
The Relationship Between Defamation, Breach of Privacy and Other Legal Claims Involving Offensive Internet Content by David Mangan, City University London
The project website, where you can see all the papers and comment on them, is here:
http://www.lco-cdo.org/en/our-current-projects/defamation-law-in-the-internet-age/
and a Lawyers Daily article summarizing them is here:
https://www.thelawyersdaily.ca/articles/4329/law-commission-project-examines-defamation-law-in-internet-age?category=news
This is a very ambitious project and it will be interesting to see the Commission’s report and recommendations as a result of the papers and ensuing consultation.
Yours truly,
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JOHN C.
KLEEFELD Dean and Professor, Faculty of Law University of New Brunswick PO Box 4400 41 Dineen Drive Fredericton NB Canada E3B 5A3 +1 506 453 4635 http://www.unb.ca/faculty-staff/directory/law/kleefeld-john.html |
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