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In article <09Sdne8UQK_0jiTRnZ2dnUVZ_sednZ2d@vex.net>,
Kenneth McVay OBC <kmcvay@shell.vex.net> wrote:
>In article <6pfhb6thka2vrojhiaq6tmhgnmopi9fkkt@4ax.com>,
>Moldy Bread  <MoldyBread@redmonton.com> wrote:
>
>Oh, look! There's William Grosvenor's favorite
>newsreader again!
>
>Updated Grosvenor Legal Documents & Extortion conviction: 
>http://William-Grosvenor.info
>
>William Grosvenor is a convicted extortionist who
>devotes his time to spreading hatred and defamation.
>
>Grosvenor recently complied with a court order to pay a 
>$50,000 libel award and costs in excess of $30,000 
>resulting from his penchant for defamation,
>libel, assault and extortion.
>
>He is, above all, monumentally stupid.
>
>Grosvenor now lives in exile, a complete disgrace.
>
>http://www.canlii.org/en/on/onsc/doc/2008/2008canlii57728/2008canlii57728.html
>
>Defamation
>
>[52]      In Botiuk v. Toronto Free Press Publications
>Ltd., 1995 CanLII 60 (S.C.C.), [1995] 3 S.C.R. 3
>(S.C.C.), Cory J. said, at para. 62,
>
>   [A] publication which tends to lower a person in the
>estimation of right-thinking members of society, or to
>expose a person to hatred, contempt or ridicule, is
>defamatory and will attract liability.What is
>defamatory may be determined from the ordinary meaning
>of the published words themselves or from the
>surrounding circumstances. 
>                         
>[53]      The tort of defamation consists of the two
>torts of libel and slander.  The law of libel and
>slander protects an individual.s reputation.  Libel is
>any publication of defamatory material.  The law
>presumes that the words are false unless and until the
>defendant proves the contrary.  In order to succeed in
>his defamatory action, the plaintiff must establish
>each of the following three elements on a balance of
>probabilities:  (1) the words are defamatory; (2) the
>words are published; (3) the plaintiff is the person
>defamed: Rainaldi, Remedies in Tort, looseleaf
>(Carswell, 2006), at pp. 6-20.
>
>[54]      With respect to the first element, the
>Postings on the various websites and with the various
>website groups are clearly defamatory according to
>their ordinary meaning.  They are calculated to be
>personally and professionally insulting and demeaning.
>They refer to the plaintiff as a dishonest man, liar,
>scumbag, pimp and disgusting maggot, to name a few.
>They falsely allege that the plaintiff is part of
>organized crime and financed by .mobs..  They falsely
>allege that the plaintiff was convicted of child
>molestation.  They attack the plaintiff.s credibility
>and reputation as a lawyer.  They significantly
>discredit his personal and professional reputation and
>they do so over and over again.  They heap hatred,
>contempt and ridicule on the plaintiff and by their
>volume and wide dissemination, they seriously expose
>the plaintiff to hatred, contempt and ridicule from
>others.  As the plaintiff testified at trial, to be
>falsely alleged to be a pedophile convicted of sexual
>assault against a young person is particularly hurtful.
>
>[55]      With respect to the second element, I have no
>difficulty concluding that the defamatory words are
>published.  The Internet is a means of publication like
>no other, given its ability to instantaneously send
>words throughout the world to the millions who have
>access to computers.  The defendant has caused
>defamatory words to be communicated to others by the
>Postings and each time he has re-posted the same
>defamatory words in the Postings, he has created a new
>publishing of these words.
>
>[56]      I also have no difficulty concluding that the
>third element has been established, in that the
>plaintiff was clearly the person being defamed.  The
>defendant mentioned the plaintiff.s name in all of the
>Fourteen Postings referred to above.  In some of the
>Postings, the defendant included links to a picture of
>the plaintiff.
>
>[57]      It is for these reasons I conclude that the
>defendant.s Postings have defamed the plaintiff.
>
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