2012 April 5

Buckle v. Caswell, 2012 SKQB 143

The Saskatchewan Court of Queen’s Bench found the defendant to be “guilty of contempt of court and criminal contempt of court by breaching and refusing or failing to obey” a September 2009 injunction which prohibited the defendant from “publishing or causing to be published on the internet (or any other media) any defamatory statement referring to the plaintiff.” This finding related to defamatory material published by the defendant on her blog “on a continued basis”. The Court sentenced the defendant to a jail term 30 days but suspended the order of incarceration as long as the defendant complies with the September 2009 injunction. The Court also ordered Google Inc. [which was not a party to the lawsuit) to remove the defamatory material from the blog site of the defendant.