Nova Scotia Plaintiff awarded $60,000 for unrelenting social media criticism

The case of Terris v. Meisner arose from what the trial judge found to be a sad, regrettable set of facts. The defendant’s son was an intellectually disabled adult who was a longtime resident of a care home, at which the plaintiff worked as a nurse. The son had a history of being physically violent to himself and others. One night in 2016 the son became extremely agitated and, due to understaffing, had to be restrained; among other behaviour he was flinging feces at people, some of which hit the plaintiff, who was among the staff dealing with the situation. At one point a hand towel was placed in front of his face, apparently to keep him from spitting on people; the hand towel was misidentified in notes as a “pillowcase” though that was later corrected.

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