Shortly after we wrote about the legal battle between Lawbuzz and AdviceScene.com, an entry was posted on the latter site's blog providing an update.

The blog post, by AdviceScene founder Nancy Kinney, describes the matter as “settled” and takes the Lawbuzz online community to task for posting defamatory comments. “Lawyers should know better than to publish blatantly untrue and defamatory statements,” Kinney writes, “even if they were made online anonymously.”

The post concludes:

I am a huge supporter of free speech and I don’t like censorship at all, however when free speech reaches the point where people and businesses get hurt, there should be a way to put an end to it. People are free to be completely critical of me and this site; in fact I welcome criticism openly. However when those criticisms are based on untrue allegations specifically meant to hurt my business, that’s where I draw the line. Statements like the ones made last year on lawbuzz.ca, some of them from well-known lawyers, hurt our chances of making a go of a site that strives to bring greater legal understanding to the public; and can not be tolerated.

At the bottom of the blog post are links to the associated legal documents.

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