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"Canadian Rulings Revise Law on Libel"

"Canadian Rulings Revise Law on Libel": Today's edition of The New York Times contains an article that begins, "The Supreme Court of Canada released two decisions in libel suits against major newspapers on Tuesday that increase protections for journalists, bloggers and others in Canada, a country whose libel laws are unusually stringent."

In today's edition of The Toronto Globe and Mail, Kirk Makin reports that "Top court transforms press freedom with new libel defence; Updated law extends defence to new media." The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled "A landmark for free speech."

The Toronto Star reports that "Top court expands freedoms for media." The newspaper also contains an editorial entitled "Rewriting our libel laws."

The Ottawa Citizen contains an article headlined "Ruling a win for press freedom; Citizen victory widens protections against claims of defamation."

The Canadian Press reports that "Supreme Court creates new public interest libel defence for press and bloggers."

Reuters reports that "Supreme court gives media more libel protection."

CBC News has a report headlined "New libel defence allowed: Supreme Court; 2 publications fighting $1.5M, $100K libel awards."

These articles report on two separate rulings that the Supreme Court of Canada issued yesterday. You can access those rulings here and here.

Full post as published by How Appealing on December 23, 2009 (boomark / email).