Brian Radnoff was recently quoted in the Waterloo Record on the
contempt sentencing in Astley v. Verdun. Radnoff
recently submitted at a sentencing hearing that only a jail
sentence will show the right amount of deterrence for a former
newspaper editor who violated an injunction arising out of a
defamation action against him.
In early 2013, after a defamation action against him by
businessman Robert Astley, Robert Verdun, who describes himself as
a corporate governance activist and journalist, was found to be in
contempt of a permanent injunction.
At the sentencing hearing, Radnoff (Astley's lawyer) said
that Verdun still has not expressed an appropriate amount of
remorse for violating an injunction which had ordered him not to
criticize Astley over his alleged involvement in the RIM Park
financing scandal, reports the Waterloo Record.
