CANADA
The Province
BY KEITH FRASER, THE PROVINCE JUNE 15, 2015
A lawyer for freelance journalist Laura Robinson argued Monday that former Vancouver Olympics CEO John Furlong employed a “media strategy” to attack his client and never seriously intended to follow through with his defamation lawsuit against her.
After Robinson wrote an article in the Georgia Straight in September 2012 alleging that Furlong had abused some former students in northern B.C. more than 40 years ago, Furlong filed a defamation suit against her.
Robinson counter-sued him for defamation. In March, after three lawsuits alleging Furlong had sexually abused students had been dismissed, Furlong dropped his lawsuit.
Robinson decided to proceed with her suit, and in his opening statement to a judge Monday her lawyer, Bryan Baynham, argued Furlong did little to advance his lawsuit.
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