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The UPEPA will supplant Maines previous Anti-SLAPP Act which was limited to the right to petition and was also short on procedural specifics.

State senators Nathan Manning (R-North Ridgeville) and Theresa Gavarone (R-Bowling Green) introduced Senate Bill 237, which protects the First Amendment rights of Ohioans, according to a news release. The Uniform Public Expression Protection Act establishes a judicial process to prevent meritless lawsuits that attempt to intimidate individuals for exercising their Constitutional rights, the release said. […]

The High Court judge in Belfast this week threw out a claim brought by the party’s north Belfast MLA Gerry Kelly against a journalist.

SLAPP is typically a lawsuit intended to censor, intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition.

Anti-SLAPP legislation is being drawn up to protect journalists from being hounded out of reporting on corruption – but agreeing on key definitions is proving difficult.

The Sinn Fein ard fheis is being held at the Technological University of the Shannons campus in Athlone, Co Westmeath.

Explaining SLAPPs to those outside the media or the law is a challenge. The acronym – strategic lawsuits against public participation – makes little sense. The various legal provisions used to shut up journalists are a bewildering morass. And, many recent cases in the London courts, at least, have involved complex technical arguments advanced by unfamiliar foreign applicants.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the ruling by the Basic Civil Court Skopje, against Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL) and the editor-in-chief Sashka Cvetkovska for defamation of businessman Kocho Angjushev, handed down on 24 October 2023.

Narnia Bohler-Muller explores Busisiwe Mkhwebane's tenure as PP and provides measures to curb abuse of the legal system by those in power.