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Good evening.

This week was a light week at the Court of Appeal, with only four substantive civil decisions.

The Court released another anti-SLAPP decision in New Dermamed Inc. v. Sulaiman,  clarifying that the onus rests on a responding party resisting a motion to dismiss its defamation claim under section 137.1 of the Courts of Justice Act not to show that there is no possibility that the defence of fair comment could succeed, but rather, that it is reasonably possible that a trier of fact could conclude that the defence would not succeed.
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