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The lawyers in Lawson Lundell’s Defamation and Media Practice Group are experienced counsel who are called upon regularly by clients to apply their specialized skills and expertise in relation to libel, slander and other aspects of media law. Members of the group are also frequent contributors to legal and other literatures. Thus, the work of the members of the firm’s Defamation and Media Law Practice Group is informed by a body of expertise drawn directly from current experience in professional writing, editing and publishing.
Members of the practice group have acted as counsel in pursuing and defending claims for defamation and are frequently consulted for advice by potential defendants and plaintiffs in connection with libel and slander issues, Privacy Act issues and other such matters that involve, directly or indirectly, the activities of the print or electronic media and, increasingly, the Internet.
Recent work done by our media lawyers in the defamation law and media law areas includes:
representing an internationally recognised rock music star in relation to threats by a collaborator at an early stage of his career to advertise and profit from the unauthorised reproduction and sale of early performance tapes;
representing a prominent physician in an action concerning allegedly defamatory statements made by him and other medical staff about another prominent physician;
representing a non-profit charitable statutory body in a defamation action against a collection of its critics who have posted materials on a website that the statutory body claims are defamatory;
representing a trade publication in relation to content published in its pages that allegedly defamed the members of an industry association;
representing an industrial corporation in relation to allegedly defamatory content in correspondence and a website operated by a municipal government concerning disputed and unproven regulatory infractions;
representing the trustees of a major public pension plain in relation to allegedly defamatory content in a “human interest” story broadcast by a major local television network;
representing the trustees of a major public pension plan in relation to allegedly defamatory content in correspondence and other materials displayed on the Internet by an interest group of disaffected members;
representing a major disposal company in relation to allegedly defamatory statements made by its employee about a competitor;
representing the trustees of a major public pension plan in relation to allegedly defamatory content in correspondence and other materials circulated by competing providers of benefit administration services;
representing a pharmacy and licensed pharmacist in a claim against a Vancouver daily newspaper concerning a story that was alleged to contain false and disparaging factual statements about them in relation to a pharmacy patron suspected of “multi-doctoring”;
representing a non-profit organization in a claim against a number of advertising agencies and other corporate players in connection with the publication of an allegedly defamatory advertisement in two national trade papers;
representing a local newspaper in a defamation action brought by an operator of bingo halls licensed to operate for charitable purposes;
representing a national newspaper in a Privacy Act action brought by several plaintiffs in connection with an advertisement that made use of their photographs without their consent;
representing a professional association in a dispute with a newspaper that published allegedly defamatory allegations about that association’s policies on health care reform;
representing a large company in the financial planning industry in a dispute with a national television network in connection with an allegedly defamatory segment of a high profile investigative journalism television program;
representing a multinational mining company in a dispute with a national television network in connection with allegedly defamatory content in a news story that the network had threatened to run on a segment of its nightly news broadcast;
representing the owner of a large resort hotel chain in a dispute with a competitor and a Vancouver newspaper based upon allegedly defamatory remarks made by the competitor about a particular resort hotel project that were subsequently published by the newspaper; and
representing the president of the body that regulates one of the primary health care professions in British Columbia in a dispute concerning allegedly defamatory statements made about him in a newsletter published to members of his profession.
View a listing of team members in this practice area.
For more information contact Marko Vesely at 604.631.9260.
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