2011 September 16

Group BMR inc. v. Gilbert, 2011 QCCS 4954

The Quebec Superior Court granted the plaintiff company and its president (also a plaintiff) a permanent injunction prohibiting the defendant from publishing any statements calculated to damage the plaintiffs, their shareholders, administrators, officers, employees, suppliers or merchant members. At trial, the plaintiffs tendered proof that the defendant had defamed them with false allegations of a very serious nature which were published in emails, letters and other communications. The plaintiffs did not seek damages because the defendant was impecunious. Previous interlocutory injunctions had failed to restrain the defendant who declared his intention to continue disseminating his allegations to third parties.