How to Use this Book

• Author: David A. Potts
• Profession: Barrister, Bar of Ontario
• Pages: 8-10

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 : How to Use this Book

A. WHAT THIS BOOK IS

is book is not designed to be read cover to c over. Rather, it is designed to

provide judges and law yers, faced with a problem or number of problems

arising from cyberlibel, a source of pert inent information as needed.

B. CHAR ACTERISTICS OF THIS BOOK

e following features have been introduced to facilitate the book’s use:

. e body of the text has largely been written i n a factum-style format.

. ere a re a series of Frequently Asked Quest ions (FAQs) in Chapter 

covering a variety of issues, which ca n be consulted as a starting point.

. My p ersonal observations are identied as personal observations. is

has been done so that you can ignore them i f you wish and so t here wil l

be no c onfusion w ith the statements of law that are contai ned through-

out the book. Where t here are comments on certain cases , I have distin-

guished between my opinion and statements of law.

. e chapters are designed as much as possible to be self-contained. is

has, in my view, both a central benet and a central drawback. e benet

is that tiresome scampering back and forth between chapters for required

information by the reader will be reduced. e drawback is duplication of

aspects of the law among certain c hapters.

. e book contains large caselaw extracts from certai n decisions, especial-

ly from the Supreme Court of Canada, House of Lords, the US Supreme

Court, the High Cour t of Austral ia, and other appellate courts. e large

extracts are ins erted in severa l situations, more specical ly: