2023 July 24

Robinson v. Niganobe, 2023 ONSC 4281

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice awarded the plaintiff businessman $50,000 general damages and $25,000 aggravated damages against the defendant, his ex-wife and business partner, over two Facebook posts which made serious defamatory accusations.  The Court concluded that the  defamatory posts, which appeared on the Facebook page of the plaintiff’s business, were communicated to a large number of people as the Facebook page had over two thousand followers.  The Court also considered that the defendant was using the Facebook posts to gain some advantage in unrelated legal proceedings.