17/05/12: Facebook Defamation Case




The Current from CBC Radio (Highlights) show

Summary: Canada prides itself on a transparent justice system , its courts open to the public. Which is why a Halifax case awaiting a Supreme Court decision is such a lightening rod. At issue .. is the question of whether a teenage girl can sue anonymously for defamation over a case of cyber-bullying on Facebook, even while keeping the actual words written about her also secret. It is a case that has civil libertarians intervening worried about the message this would send.