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SLAPPs to be slapped down?

SLAPPs to be slapped down?

But not quite yet

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Joshua Rozenberg
Mar 17, 2022
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The government is to launch a consultation on protecting free speech. It’s aimed at what are called SLAPPs, which is meant to stand for “strategic lawsuits against public participation”.

An example, according to the government, is a recent claim brought by a Kazakh-owned mining firm against the Financial Times journalist Tom Burgis and the publishers of …

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