The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition welcomes the new Government and calls on them to finish the work stamping out SLAPPs
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...
The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition calls on all parties to not turn this snap election into a SLAPP election
The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition is deeply worried by the number of legal threats that have been made during the election campaign following the 22 May announcement for a 4 July General Election. While elections are moments of heightened stakes and scrutiny, politicians...
A Missed Opportunity: The July General Election leaves the UK Government’s commitment to stamping out SLAPPs unrealised.
On 22 May, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced the next General Election will take place on 4 July 2024. With six weeks until the polls open and the dissolution of Parliament, the Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation Bill (the SLAPP Bill) has...
The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition expresses support for Greenpeace as they face legal action from Shell
Photo credit: Chris J. Ratcliffe / Greenpeace The UK Anti-SLAPP Coalition expresses its support for Greenpeace as it faces a legal action claiming more than three quarters of a million pounds in damages as a result of their peaceful protest against the activities of...