2021 October 21

Lalli v. Gravel, 2021 QCCA 1549

The Quebec Court of Appeal, reversing a trial decision in favour of the defendants, ordered them to pay the plaintiff $60,000 defamation damages over a Radio Canada broadcast and website articles published in March, 2013.  The Court held that the impugned expression distorted reality and found that the individual defendant created the distorted version of the facts in order to tell a more sensational and interesting story.