2007 May 23

Crozier v. Cherniak, [2007] O. J. No. 2024

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice rejected proposed amendments to the statement of claim in this action brought by an ex-lawyer in relation to allegedly defamatory statements contained in a Report published by the defendant Law Society of Upper Canada on the internet. The report was a brief summary of discipline proceedings against the plaintiff in 1997. The Court held that the Report was accurate and that the plaintiff’s proposed amendments therefore had no hope of success. “All aspects of the plaintiff’s defamation case are incapable of being proven and legally untenable.”