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SLAPPs to be slapped...

SLAPPs to be slapped...

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Joshua Rozenberg
Nov 22, 2024
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“SLAPPs represent an abuse of our legal system,” the justice minister Heidi Alexander told MPs yesterday. “They curtail free speech, have a chilling effect on public interest journalism and pose a threat to our democracy.”

But strategic lawsuits against public participation — a phrase that has always struck me as a clumsy justification for a handy acrony…

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