Judge rules against B.C. logging company's request to probe environmentalists' social media info

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The company said the social media activities of the protesters — including encouraging people to go to a protest camp near the logging site in contravention of a court injunction and asking for donations to support the cause — constituted real harm to the company.

But Lyster said Norwich orders are usually granted in cases of serious fraud or online defamation — when there are issues with anonymous wrongdoers and concerns money could be unrecoverable without the information.This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

“It is incumbent on a party seeking a Norwich order to obtain information of the kind sought by Cooper Creek to exhaust other available means of obtaining the information sought before asking the court to make a Norwich order,” the judge wrote.

 

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