Nov 2017 Charity & NFP Law Update
In the case of Vanderveen v Waterbridge Media Inc., released on November 20, 2017, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice Small Claims Court considered a claim under the tort of intrusion upon seclusion when the plaintiff was filmed jogging on a walking trail without her consent. The court awarded the plaintiff the sum of $4000 in damages after her image was used for commercial purposes without her knowledge or consent. This recent decision highlights the increasingly shifting and fluid boundaries between being public and being private and expands the elements of the tort of intrusion upon seclusion recently recognized in Ontario.
For the balance of this Bulletin, please see Charity & NFP Law Bulletin No. 413.