Stoppage Time:
Staying Proceedings after Haaretz.com v Goldhar

Prof. Stephen G.A. Pitel
Western University, Ontario
Canada

Saturday, 14 September – 9:00 am
Room W 201, Faculty of Law – Professor-Huber-Platz 2, 80539 Munich

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In Haaretz.com v Goldhar, 2018 SCC 28 the Supreme Court of Canada reversed two lower courts and held that the plaintiff’s libel proceedings in Ontario should be stayed because Israel was the clearly more appropriate forum.  The case concerned defamation over the internet.  The plaintiff, a resident of Ontario, alleged that an Israeli newspaper defamed him.  Most readers of the story were in Israel but there were over 200 readers in Ontario.  The decision offers several interesting observations about the discretionary staying of proceedings.