Vancouver: a bride must pay $ 115,000 for defamation

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Thursday, 1 march 2018 17:13

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A bride-to-be Vancouver there will think twice before attacking a company’s reputation on social networks.

Not satisfied with the services of a company that has arranged her marriage, Emily Liao has not only lost his case against Amara Wedding, but she was ordered to pay him $ 115,000 for defamatory remarks required on the internet, reported the “Vancouver Sun” on Thursday.

Emily Liao and her future husband Edward Chow had retained the services of the company to Amara Wedding in 2015 to unite their destiny, which included the photography, the makeup, the flowers, the rental of evening wear and master of ceremonies.

A month after her marriage, she has filed a lawsuit against the company in small claims court. But it does not stop there.

For about a year, Emily Liao has made known his displeasure on numerous occasions against Amara Wedding on the social networks. Derogatory comments in both English and chinese, therefore, have been published on sites such as Facebook, VanPeople and:. In January 2016, she even accused on Weibo, the chinese equivalent of Twitter, the company executives of fraud by urging internet users not to do business with them, according to the judgment.

After having lost her case to small claims, Emily Liao has suffered the wrath of the judge of the supreme Court of British Columbia Gordon Weatherill for his comments on the internet following a complaint of the officers of Amara Wedding.

In its decision, on the 22nd of last February, the judge accused him of having led a campaign of “malicious” in order to discredit the company, in a way “extreme, adversarial and venomous”.

It is for this reason that he imposed to pay $ 115,000 in damages.

“Emily and those who believe it is acceptable to use the internet as a vehicle to let go of their frustrations should be aware that there will be consequences if these publications are defamatory”, said the judge Weatherhill, quoted by the “Vancouver Sun”.