2017 October 20

Wallbridge v. Brunning, 2017 ONSC 6283

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice, on application by the defendant, ordered the plaintiff to provide further particulars of “other substantially similar comments” allegedly published by the defendant.   The plaintiff’s statement of claim alleged that defamatory allegations by the defendant in certain letters were re-published by a self-styled journalist, to unknown numbers via two Facebook postings. The Court declined to order that the plaintiff provide further particulars about the “unknown number of readers.”  Particulars of special damages were ordered.