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Everything you need to understand, fight, and build resilience against SLAPPs – whether on a national, regional or global level.

Resource

CASE Legal Ethics Report

Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are an abuse of the legal process that chill advocacy and undermine democratic scrutiny. This Legal Ethics Report examines how Europe’s legal profession and court systems should prevent lawyers from enabling such abuse and how institutions should respond when it occurs. The report does…
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Report

2025 Report: SLAPPs in Europe – Democracy in the Dock

The 2025 report from the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE) and the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation finds that the number of abusive lawsuits continues to rise across Europe, even in the face of the EU’s new anti-SLAPP law, which came into force in May 2024 and which countries have…
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Report

A 2024 Report on SLAPPs in Europe: Mapping Trends and Cases

CASE’s 2024 report on SLAPPs reveals that the use of vexatious lawsuits to silence those speaking out in the interest of the public good shows no sign of slowing down. Since 2019 CASE has worked with Amsterdam Law Clinics to catalogue and analyse SLAPP cases across Europe. In March of…
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Guidebooks

HOW TO PREVENT SLAPPS OR GET HELP IF IT’S TOO LATE

INTRODUCTION Welcome to the CASE anti-SLAPP Guidebook. This resource is meant to support smaller ‘public watchdogs’ (such as NGOs, media outlets or individual authors) that don’t have access to a legal department. Since you accessed this resource, you probably know what a SLAPP is, but if not, you can read…
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Resource

CASE Guidebook – How to prevent SLAPPs or get help if it’s too late

Welcome to the CASE anti-SLAPP Guidebook. This resource is meant to support smaller ‘public watchdogs’ (such as NGOs, media outlets or individual authors) that don’t have access to a legal department.
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Resource

How to counter SLAPPs? CASE Italia releases a position paper

Italy witnesses a concerning rise as politicians and high-profile public figures increasingly employ aggressive legal measures to suppress criticism.
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