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by Simon ChesterSimon Chester's involvement with legal information goes back to the Seventies when he taught legal research at Osgoode Hall and served on CLIC's board - that was the Canadian Law Information Council. He has practiced law on Bay Street for almost thirty years and speaks and writes widely on legal and professional issues
[click on the author's name to go to email and web page links] on October 28th, 2008

Here is a link to a useful decision from the BC Courts yesterday which confirms what we always thought was the case: that linking to allegedly defamatory material does not constitute republication so as to expose the linking site to liability in defamation.

Good to have this confirmed.

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