In what circumstances will the defence of qualified privilege be defeated?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Olds College v Huxley, 2019 BCSC 2111 (CanLII):
The Court in Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto, 1995 CanLII 59 (SCC), [1995] 2 S.C.R. 1130, identified the circumstances in which the defence of qualified privilege might be defeated:
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