Press

The Fading Line between Free Speech and Libel
Legal guru says blurry boundaries and the rise of the Internet is making his craft ‘utterly unworkable’
By Jacquie McNish
The Globe and Mail, July 2, 2008

Steyn Watches as Tribunal Winds Up
By Brian Hutchinson
National Post, June 7, 2008

Julian Porter Interview (video)
Portion of an interview with Julian Porter, lead counsel for Maclean’s magazine, explaining why he has chosen to call no witnesses.
June 5, 2008
Posted on YouTube

The Mulroney Tapes
By Julie Smyth
National Post, September 14, 2005

Bookkeeping on Anne movies ‘laughable,’ trial told
Lawyers for Sullivan Entertainment, author’s descendents conclude arguments
by Gayle Macdonald
The Globe and Mail, November 29, 2003

BrainGain: 50 Who Chose Canada
Immigrants and Canadians who left and returned have made a major contribution to the nation’s growth [profile of Anna Porter]
Maclean’s, July 1, 2001

Profile
Julian Porter, son of a former chief justice who’s now a leading expert on the law of defamation
By Bill Rogers, Toronto
The Lawyers Weekly, June 25, 1999

Defenders of the Pen
Canada’s media lawyers wage war on “libel chill” and the power of the purse
By Stevie Cameron, author and journalist
National Magazine, Canadian Bar Association, May 1993

A Year of Trials
Excerpt from Judges (Toronto: Macmillan, 1986), by Jack Batten

Horsing around at the Starting Gate
Column by Allan Fotherigham, 1983