2017 February 9

Mattson v. Quiggin, 2017 ONSC 984 (Master)

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice granted a defence motion to have certain defamation lawsuits over a blog report tried together, or one after the other, in the discretion of the trial judge. The lawsuits were both filed the same day, against the same defendants, over the same online report. The Court determined that the two lawsuits had common questions of law and fact, arose from the same transaction and involved damage claims over the same blog report.