2016 May 2

Droszio v. Flather, 2016 BCSC 786

The British Columbia Supreme Court struck out portions of a counterclaim based on allegedly defamatory statements made by the plaintiffs: to the defendant, or the defendant’s lawyer; in court pleadings containing allegations about the defendant; and ;on a website which included the defendant’s name, stories referring to the defendant and photos of the defendant. The Court accepted the plaintiffs’ submission that inter alia the website complaint was deficient because it did not assert specifics of the website content.