The Google injunction saga continues.
On April 16, 2018, the Supreme Court of British Columbia in
Equustek Solutions Inc v Jack, 2018 BCSC 610 refused to
vary an interim injunction earlier issued by that court that had
required Google, a third party to the underlying action, to deindex
certain websites from its global search results. This April
16th decision came after a U.S. court ruled in November
2017 that the Canadian issued injunction could not be enforced in
the United States as contrary to a U.S. law (our discussion of the
U.S. decision is available
here). This latest decision creates some certainty for the
enforceability of worldwide orders issued by Canadian courts,
clarifies conditions under which such orders might be varied, and
affirms the integrity of Canadian courts over their own
processes.
