2025 March 24

Silvercore Advanced Training Systems Inc. v. Beer, 2025 BCSC 538

The British Columbia Supreme Court awarded $25,000 general damages to the plaintiff over two defamatory emails and several defamatory Facebook messages in 2018.  The majority of the plaintiff’s claims relating to other publications failed.  The court ruled that the damages resulting from the Facebook messages should be nominal because there was virtually no reputational damage.  Finding that the plaintiff failed to establish economic loss or to quantify the damage to its reputation, the Court stated that “damages must be at the low end of the spectrum.”