UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition criticises the SRA’s closure of Higgins’ SLAPP complaint and points to need for universal SLAPP protections

by Nik Williams | Jan 28, 2025 | News

The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition is highly critical of the decision by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to close the complaint brought by Bellingcat founder Eliot Higgins against Discreet Law, the firm that represented Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, without...

Silenced Stories: Documenting the impact of legal harassment

by Nik Williams | Nov 22, 2024 | News

Yesterday, MPs from different political parties stood up in the House of Commons to describe press reports from media outlets across the country. What made this moment unique was that each story had never been published. The reason? Legal threats prevented them...

Threatening legal letter sent to every sitting MP as Parliament delays establishing anti-SLAPP protections

by Nik Williams | Sep 12, 2024 | News

On 11 September 2024, a legal letter from London law firm, Silver, Langston And Percival Partners was sent to every sitting MP, calling for them to withdraw public statements and apologise. If they do not they could face court proceedings in an unprecedented attack on...

The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition response to the 2024 King’s Speech

by Nik Williams | Jul 18, 2024 | News

The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition is disappointed that an anti-SLAPP Law was not included in yesterday’s King’s Speech, especially considering the cross-party support for reform and the progress already made towards this vital issue. Now that the Labour Party is in the...

The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition welcomes the new Government and calls on them to finish the work stamping out SLAPPs

by Nik Williams | Jul 11, 2024 | News

Photo Credit: Number 10 Following the UK General Election on 4 July 2024, the co-chairs of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition have today written to the Prime Minister, the Secretary of State for Justice, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and the Foreign...