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The Facebook bullying case – Part II

In May 2011, I wrote about a case from Nova Scotia which I referred to as the “Facebook Bullying Case”. This case involves a teenage girl who was bullied and defamed on a fake Facebook page. To address this problem, her parents brought an application...

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The Facebook firing cases – can it happen in Canada?

There has been a lot of press in the U.S. last week over the so-called “Facebook firing case”. An employee of the...

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To hyperlink or not to hyperlink – That is the question

This week, the Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments on a question that is unique to Canadian law: if you place a hyperlink in your website or blog, and that hyperlink leads to a website that contains defamatory statements about another person, are you liable to that person for defamation?

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