B.C. bride’s online malice against photographer ends with order to pay $115,000
VANCOUVER — A British Columbia bride has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 to a wedding photographer for unleashing an online torrent of defamatory comments that eventually destroyed the business.
The B.C. Supreme Court judgement says the attack on the integrity, ethics and reputation of Amara Wedding and its owner, Kitty Chan, was carried out by bride Emily Liao “with all her might.”
In his ruling released Feb. 22, Justice Gordon Weatherill says Liao’s “mission was to expose what she wrongly perceived as a corrupt business. He says Liao used the internet so her views would be widely read and cause “as much damage as possible” to Chan’s reputation and business.
“That goal was successful,” Weatherill says in the written ruling released online.