CIPPIC Files Intervention in Supreme Court Defamation Jurisdiction Case

Published Sep 14, 2017By David Fewer

CIPPIC has filed its factum in Haaretz v Goldhar, an online defamation matter before the Supreme Court of Canada addressing the question of jurisdiction for online expression accessible over the internet in Canada. CIPPIC's factum focuses on the role access to justice and forum shopping considerations play in judicial decisions on jurisdiction. Professor Jeremy de Beer and Marina Pavlovic crafted our argument.