FF. Media Law/Defamation

• Author: Ted Tjaden
• Profession: National Director of Knowledge Management McMillan LLP
• Pages: 263-263

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Scope This section discusses media law and the law of defamation, a topic (largely) governed by various provincial legislation and case law. See also Communications Law, discussed above in this chapter.

Subject headings

Freedom of the press - Canada

Libel and slander - Canada

Mass media - Law and legislation - Canada Press law - Canada

Books Brown, Raymond. Defamation Law: A Primer. Toronto: Thomson Carswell, 2003.

Brown, Raymond. The Law of Defamation in Canada. Looseleaf. 2d ed. Scarborough, ON: Carswell, 1994.

Crawford, Michael G. The Journalist’s Legal Guide, 5th ed.

Scarborough, ON: Thomson Carswell, 2008.

Downard, Peter A. Libel. Markham, ON: LEXISNEXIS Butter-worths, 2003.

Duarte, Tony. Canadian Film & Television Business & Legal

Practice. Looseleaf. Aurora, ON: Canada Law Book, 2000. Jobb, Dean. The Fine Print: A Writer’s Guide to Canadian

Media Law. Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2004. Jollimore, Mary. A Lawyer’s Guide to Managing the Media.

Aurora, ON: Canada Law Book, 2000.

Martin, Robert, ed. Speaking Freely: Expression and the Law in the Commonwealth. Toronto: Irwin Law, 1999. MCCONCHIE, Roger D. & David A. Potts. Canadian Libel and

Slander Actions. Toronto: Irwin...