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Clicklaw Wikibooks has teamed up with Vancouver lawyer [[JP Boyd|John-Paul Boyd]] to turn his very popular family law website, www.bcfamilylawresource.com, into this new Clicklaw Wikibook title, [[JP Boyd on Family Law]]. The migration of | Clicklaw Wikibooks has teamed up with Vancouver lawyer [[JP Boyd|John-Paul Boyd]] to turn his very popular family law website, www.bcfamilylawresource.com, into this new Clicklaw Wikibook title, [[JP Boyd on Family Law]]. The migration of John-Paul's website into this new format preserves the accessibility, scope and humour of the original, which provided free family law information to more than 27,000 British Columbians a month and had been published for more than a decade. | ||
As a Clicklaw Wikibook, [[JP Boyd on Family Law]] harnesses the strength of the open-source wiki platform, the same platform that powers Wikipedia, and a book creator option that allows libraries and individual readers to print as little or as much of this wiki as they want, in a convenient, user-friendly book format that expands the reach of this resource to benefit British Columbians online and off. | As a Clicklaw Wikibook, [[JP Boyd on Family Law]] harnesses the versatility and strength of the open-source wiki platform, the same platform that powers Wikipedia, and a book creator option that allows libraries and individual readers to print as little or as much of this wiki as they want, in a convenient, user-friendly book format that expands the reach of this resource to benefit British Columbians online and off. | ||
====A collaborative, community resource==== | ====A collaborative, community resource==== | ||
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[[JP Boyd on Family Law]] continues John-Paul's commitment to explaining the legal system and providing free public legal education and information on family law and divorce law, court processes and other dispute resolution mechanisms. | |||
There is immense public benefit in so many respected lawyers committing to ensure that John-Paul’s original resource continues strong under the changes to the ''Family Law Act''. That it is in a format suitable for both digital consumption and print, is another gain. | There is immense public benefit in so many respected lawyers committing to ensure that John-Paul’s original resource continues strong under the changes to the ''Family Law Act''. That it is in a format suitable for both digital consumption and print, is another gain. | ||
You might be reading this page on a laptop in a coffee shop, or you could be holding this book at a public library. Both digital and print formats are made possible by the technology that powers Clicklaw Wikibooks, and one of the main rationales for creating a wikibook, was the chance to put real books on public library shelves, since so many people rely on their library for information of all kinds. | You might be reading this page on a laptop in a coffee shop, or you could be holding this book at a public library. Both digital and print formats are made possible by the technology that powers Clicklaw Wikibooks, and one of the main rationales for creating a wikibook, was the chance to put real books on public library shelves, since so many people rely on their library for information of all kinds. |