Courts Recognize New Privacy Tort
The Superior Court has made a rule indicating the importance of privacy in Canada.
The ruling in Yenovkian v. Gulian states that they must protect “publicity placing a person in a false light” for the first time in Canada".
Torys has released an interesting recap on the decision which can be read here.
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