2016 August 2

Kelleher v. Langille-Westhaver,  2016 NSSC 200

The Nova Scotia Supreme Court dismissed a defense request for summary judgment dismissing the plaintiffs’ claims over alleged defamatory statements by the defendant on her private Facebook page. The Court held that the statement of claim may support a reasonable cause of action in defamation, although it did not quote the allegedly defamatory words verbatim, but did indicate the alleged content “with some specificity.” Also, “[t]he audience to whom the defamatory words were published is implicit to the forum of the alleged publication, Facebook.“