May 7, 2024
DENT-X CANADA CV-20-00645831-0000
CBC brought an application to lift a sealing order that had been ordered over ten separate civil cases. The sealing order was expansive – covering all the pleadings in the ten proceedings and even included ...

May 7, 2024
Simán v. Eisenbrandt, 2024 BCCA 176
This appeal concerns the application of the BC PPPA to a defamation action. In the first action the SLAPP suit dismissed, and in the BCCA the appeal was dismissed. The facts of this case relate ...

April 29, 2024
Ahmad v. Peel Regional Police Services Board, 2024 ONSC 2474
The CBC (represented by Iain MacKinnon) and CCLA (represented by Iris Fischer and Laura Dougan) intervened in this case where five police officers sought anonymization orders to conceal their identities.  The officers were the Defendants ...

April 12, 2024
Schoenborn (Re Application), 2024 BCRB 1001
Allan Schoenborn (convicted in February 2010, of killing his three children and found NCRMD) applied to the BC Review Board  to obtain a publication ban over his “new name” in any future proceedings before the ...

April 8, 2024
Evangelisti v. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2024 ONSC 2048
Mr. Evangelisti commenced an application in the Superior Court of Justice seeking an interim, interlocutory, and permanent injunction to prevent the CBC from publishing “any news to the general public” regarding the applicants and damages ...