2010 June 25

A.B. (Litigation guardian of) v. Bragg Communications Inc., 2010 NSCA 57

The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal imposed a temporary publication ban concerning the allegedly defamatory words published about the 15-year-old female plaintiff on a fake Facebook profile pending the hearing of the plaintiff’s her appeal from the refusal of a lower court judge to issue such a ban. The Court of Appeal order also permitted the plaintiff to proceed temporarily under a pseudonym. The plaintiff had successfully sought and obtained from the lower court a ruling compelling a service provider to disclose information in its possession regarding the identity of the owner of the IP address used to create the fake Facebook profile. The full appeal hearing is scheduled for December, 2010.