An Ontario court has ruled that Richard Warman, a prominent human rights lawyer who has launched many complaints about Internet hate, was defamed online in a series of postings. The court noted the effect of instant and possibly global dissemination of defamatory material over the Internet, awarding damages totaling $30,000, and ordering the posters to post full retractions within 10 days to all websites containing the defamatory material.
Ontario Court Rules Warman Defamed By Internet Postings
November 23, 2007
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He is also going after Free Dominion again. The papers have just been filed. Given the nature the complaints in this case, I wouldn’t be surprised if he won against FD.