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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 Shannon's 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.