A civil defamation lawsuit is intended to protect or restore a person's reputation. In the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard case, it's led to a lot of media attention but not much enlightenment on the issue of intimate spousal violence. Meanwhile in Nova Scotia, Ernest Fenwick MacIntosh has filed a defamation counterclaim in response to a civil suit. Six men are suing him for allegedly sexually assaulting them in the 1970's in Port Hawkesbury. Many of those men, I've spoken with over the years.