Tag: DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL on protecting persons who engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded or abusive court proceedings
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The European Parliament approves its anti-SLAPP Directive dubbed as “Daphne’s law”
The European Parliament has today approved with amendments, and an overwhelming majority, the European Commission’s proposed anti-SLAPP directive, dubbed by its authors and MEPs who lobbied for it as “Daphne’s law” in memory of Daphne Caruana Galizia. Before she was murdered, Daphne Caruana Galizia faced a historic number of libel suits. The law concerns transnational…