This paper will consider the current state of tort law and legislative initiatives which address internet intrusions on privacy, defamation, and harassment, as well as the judicial tools available to identify and stop the perpetrators including injunctions and Norwich Orders. This paper will also consider the use of the internet as a “medium of virtually limitless international defamation”, including its borderless reach and the continued re-publication of the harm. The paper concludes with a discussion of why legislative initiatives rather than ad hoc judicial recognition of new torts would be a more effective response to internet malfeasance.
Reproduced from the December 2024 issue of the Advocates’ Quarterly, by permission of the Thomson Reuters Canada Limited.
