“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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