The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition monitors Dan Neidle’s test of the UK’s only existing anti-SLAPP protections
Today in the Royal Court of Justice, tax transparency expert and lawyer, Dan Neidle challenged the legal threat brought against him and Tax Policy Associates in the first test of the UK’s only anti-SLAPP provisions included in the Economic Crime and Corporate...
Over 120 editors, lawyers, academics, journalists, publishers and civil society representatives call on the Government to give parliamentary time to stamp out SLAPPs.
On 28 January 2026, marking the 5th anniversary of the UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition, 127 representatives from a wide cross section of society co-signed an open letter sent to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer joining the Coalition’s call for anti-SLAPP provisions to be...
By threatening to sue the BBC, President Trump’s use of legal threats to stifle protected speech has gone global
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition condemns the legal threat brought against the BBC by the US President, Donald Trump. We call on everyone who values an independent press to support the public service broadcaster in its defence...
Recognition of SLAPPs in new UK Anti-Corruption Strategy is welcome but underscores urgency for universal anti-SLAPP law
The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition welcomes the inclusion of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) in the UK Government’s new anti-corruption strategy, which launched today, but repeats calls for a universal anti-SLAPP law. Following the launch, the UK...