Bahamian resident Peter Nygard has won Round 3 of his legal battle with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
The Winnipeg-based clothing manufacturer’s lawsuit against the CBC will forge ahead, despite three separate attempts by the state broadcaster to see it quashed.
The Manitoba Court of Appeal ruled Monday to dismiss the broadcaster’s appeal of a lower-court ruling in which a judge stated CBC appeared to be looking for “constitutional immunity” from lawsuits stemming from its news-gathering methods.
The case is one of many launched by Nygard relating to CBC’s April 2010 airing of Larger Than Life, a Fifth Estate documentary featuring former employees speaking critically of the fashion mogul.
Nygard International’s lawsuit was launched a year before the documentary aired.
In it, Nygard claims the CBC induced and conspired with Nygard employees to breach confidentiality agreements they had signed with the fashion company in the making of the documentary.
The court also ordered CBC to pay Nygard’s legal costs. The amount was not disclosed in court.
