The United Kingdom announced new measures to provide its courts with powers to stop wealthy individuals or large businesses, as well as Russian oligarchs, from abusing the UK legal system to silence critics.
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Global Citizen is a international activist group focusing on human rights and advocating for those who cannot help themselves. They recently put out a quiz in hopes of testing your knowledge of SLAPPs and how they affect activist all across the globe.
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Laura Prather, head of the media law practice group at Haynes and Boone, has been selected as a Fulbright Scholar to do research she hopes will increase global awareness of the problem with SLAPP suits, and encourage cross-border cooperation and meaningful changes in the law.
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The EU put forward a directive requiring its member states to make the legal reform to prevent cross border SLAPP suits. This prevent EU SLAPPers from forum shopping which nation they want to use.
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EU members have introduced the Media Freedom Act which is a step in the right direction towards international SLAPP protections. The entire EU creating anti-SLAPP legislation many new nations will have the protections of free speech and press.
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