Showing posts with label Letter of Reference. Show all posts
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Saturday 6 May 2017

Judge Finds Poor Reference is Not Defamation

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Can an employee sue his former employer in defamation for a poor reference? In a to-the-point decision authored by the Honourable Justice Gisele M. Miller of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Papp v. Stokes et al, 2017 ONSC 2357, the answer was not if what was is said is truthful and/or free of malice.

In the result, Justice Miller found that Mr. Papp had not been smeared as a result of an honest, but less than flattering reference.