Resources

There are multiple resources available that document the threats that SLAPPs are posing to journalism across the UK and the world. On this page, you can find links to reports, academic works, and other resources, such as podcast episodes, that can provide further context and information on SLAPPs. 

Podcast Episodes

• Centre for Freedom of the Media: The ‘chilling’ lawsuits activists say are restricting journalism and limiting freedom of speech. Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
• The Media Law Podcast: Policing protests, SLAPPs, and the Online Safety Act. Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
• The Dark Money Files: ECCTA Part 2 – SLAPPS, Fraud, Crypto and information sharing. Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
• Trouble with the Truth: SLAPP’s: What’s next? Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
• International Bar Association: SLAPPs – Lawfare against justice. Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
• Aberdeen School of Law Podcast: Anti-SLAPP Laws: Protecting the public. Spotify and Apple Podcasts.

Reports

• Centre for Freedom of the Media: Media Freedom Under Attack: Examining legislative threats to media freedom in the United Kingdom.
• Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe: SLAPPS in Europe: Mapping Trends and Cases
• The Foreign Policy Centre and ARTICLE 19: ‘London Calling’:  The issue of legal intimidation and SLAPPs against media emanating from the United Kingdom. 
• House of Commons Research Briefing: SLAPPs: Strategic litigation against public participation.
• Government Response to the Call for Evidence: SLAPPs.
• EU-Citizen: Academic Network on European Citizenship Rights. Judit Bayer, Petra Bárd, Lina Vosyliute, Ngo Chun Luk (supervised by Sergio Carrera): Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPP) in the European Union: A comparative study.
• United Nations Human Rights Office of The High Commissioner: The impact of SLAPPs on human rights & how to respond. 
• News Media Europe: The impact of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) on the news media sector. 

Journal Articles

• Adam Bodnar and Aleksandra Gliszcyńska-Grabias (2023) ‘Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPPs), the Governance of Historical Memory in the Rule of Law Crisis, and the EU Anti-SLAPP Directive‘, European Constitutional Law Review, 19(4). 642-663.
• Mark Hanna (2024) SLAPPs: What are they? And how should defamation law be reformed to address them?, Journal of Media Law, 16(1), 118-145. 
• Peter Coe, Rebecca Moosavian and Paul Wragg (2025) ‘Addressing strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs): a cirtical interrogation of legislative, and judicial responses‘, Journal of Media Law, 17(1), 103-142.