Does a relationship between a plaintiff and defendant constitute qualified privilege?

British Columbia, Canada


The following excerpt is from Boehmke v. Grant et al, 2010 BCSC 682 (CanLII):

Counsel for the defendants relies on a number of cases that he submits contain analogous relationships that were found to be protected by qualified privilege, including Kelsie v. Attorney-General, 2003 NLSCTD 139 [Kelsie].

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