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Stop the rich and powerful ruining the lives of those who speak up
PLEASE SIGN the petition - posted by the NUJ - against SLAPPs. Those are Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation and they allow those with enough cash to shut you up.
As the petition points out, the target of a SLAPP could be a sexual violence survivor naming her attacker in the pursuit of justice - or a journalist investigating the use of British property to disguise the wealth of a Russian oligarch.
"SLAPPs cannot be stamped out by reforming individual laws. This would be futile - as soon as one law was reformed, the SLAPP claimants will simply find another to abuse. This is why we need a standalone Anti-SLAPP Law that offers universal, clear and easy to access protections against abusive legal threats. The longer we wait the more people can be threatened into silence by those with deep pockets."
There's a text to inspire your letter to your Member of Parliament, too: find your MP here.
Stop the rich and powerful ruining the lives of those who speak up megaphone.org.uk
It’s the costs, not the damages Duncan Campbell at our March 2023 meeting
Find your MP parliament.uk