(Supreme Court of Canada) Defamation was alleged against lawyers writing on behalf of their clients.
Held: The defendant lawyers were ‘duty-bound’ to undertake a reasonable investigation into the correctness of the document they were signing and their failure to do so was reckless: ‘actions which might be characterized as careless behaviour in a lay person could well become reckless behaviour in a lawyer’.
Judges:
La Forest, L’Heureux-Dube, Gonthier, Cory, McLachlin, Iacobucci and Major JJ
Citations:
[1995] 3 SCR 3
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Jurisdiction:
Canada
Cited by:
Cited – Panday v Gordon PC 5-Oct-2005
(Trinidad and Tobago) A senior politician had accused an opponent of pseudo-racism. The defendant asserted that he had a defence under the constitution, allowing freedom of political speech.
Held: The appeal failed. The statements were . .
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Defamation
Updated: 30 April 2022; Ref: scu.230973
