2022 October 27

Mirzadegan v. Mahdizadeh, 2022 ONSC 6082

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice awarded $200,000 general damages and $50,000 aggravated damages to the individual plaintiff and his company over a series of negative reviews and complaints which appeared online.  The Court stated “[m]any of these posts ended up cross-posted to multiple sites on the internet” and that they “appeared weekly or sometimes daily.”  The defendants were ordered to remove the posts and permanently enjoined from publishing any defamatory statements.