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📣 Finally published in the Official Journal of the European Union The #Directive (EU) 2024/1069 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 April 2024 on protecting persons who #engage in public participation from manifestly unfounded claims or abusive court proceedings

#SLAPPs #legaltraining #democracy #fundamentalrights #ruleoflaw #lawyers

📣 Today the Committee of Ministers of the #CouncilofEurope adopted the #Recommendation CM/Rec(2024)2 The updated version of the #section dedicated to “#Education, #training and #awareness raising” now includes some of the aspects outlined in the #comments we submitted in 2023.

This week the European Council gave the final green light for the anti-#SLAPP Directive. If you want to know more about the #Directive, check out the @AntiSLAPPEU guide to the new law. #SLAPPs #legaltraining #democracy #fundamentalrights #ruleoflaw #lawyers

PATFox consortium welcomes European Parliament adoption of the Anti-#SLAPP Directive 📷 Discover the first Europe’s first anti-SLAPP #curriculum here: antislapp.eu/index-of-resou… #SLAPPs #legaltraining #democracy #fundamentalrights #ruleoflaw

And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who attended in-person or online

"What we have [with the Anti-SLAPP Directive] is a first step... and it covers only about 10% of cases." The European Media Freedom Act should also help protect journalistic activity.

Closing our event, @RamonaStrugariu acknowledges significant problems in several member states - this made negotiating the Directive with the Council quite challenging.

In Romania generally, says Cristina Lupu, we do not have enough lawyers interested in human rights and freedom of expression. Outside Bucharest, rights awareness among the lawyers of tomorrow is worryingly low.

In Spain, says Alessia, introducing the concept of SLAPP was very useful - it gave a name to a phenomenon many participants were actually already familiar with. In many respects, this project exceeded our expectations.

Parliamentarians must speak to practitioners, says @Zemploid - lawyers in Malta are not convinced the Anti-SLAPP Directive will make a significant difference. This project has been important in doing the work on the ground. There is a real communication issue to tackle.

In Malta, says @CarlaCamilleri awareness about SLAPPs is relatively high, but opportunities for discussion were extremely valuable. Our sessions brought a number of perspectives to the table - initiators of SLAPPs are getting more sophisticated so we must be too.

Anuška Podvršič of @Zavod_Open - in Slovenia we held a mix of workshops and public panel discussions, with representatives from the courts, government and academia as well as lawyers.

Ivan Godarsky of @memo98slovakia - we organised a number of workshops and not just in Bratislava. SLAPP is now part of public discourse, at least among professionals. Reaching judges is the next natural step, "the sooner we do it the better."

In Poland, @annawojcik of @oko_press says workshops were highly practical - participants were interested in developing a checklist of SLAPP characteristics that could be argued in front of judges.