When is the deadline for notice of libel in a newspaper or broadcast - six weeks?
The catalogue records a 6 weeks period from The day the alleged libel came to the plaintiff's knowledge. This draft page remains free only until its source, worked example and limits are reviewed.
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- Period
- 6 weeks
- Trigger
- The day the alleged libel came to the plaintiff's knowledge
- Counting
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- NONE. There is no statutory power to excuse or extend the notice, and compliance is a condition of the action lying at all. The only statutory softening is s 5(2), which limits the plaintiff to actual damages where a full and fair retraction was published in time.
- Added on verification: a hard six-week condition precedent absent from the researched catalogue. By s 7, s 5(1) and s 6 apply only to newspapers printed and published in Ontario and to broadcasts from a station in Ontario. The trigger is KNOWLEDGE of the libel, not publication. This notice period and the three-month limitation period in s 6 are SEPARATE and must not be merged; both must be satisfied. Being a statutory period, computation is governed by Legislation Act, 2006, s 89, not by RCP r 3.01.