Press Freedom
British law courts are being used by wealthy individuals to silence journalists, earning London the nickname ‘libel capital of the world’. There is no democracy without a free press so we're calling for reform of the UK’s libel laws
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‘It’s designed to ruin you’: Matthew Caruana Galizia on London’s libel industry
On World Press Freedom Day, a powerful reminder from Matthew Caruana Galizia, son of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, of the role played by British libel law firms in stifling public interest journalism both in the UK and abroad
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London’s law firms are ‘one-stop shops for oligarchs’
London is a hotspot for legal threats against journalists according to a new report from the Foreign Policy Centre. We spoke to the FPC’s Susan Coughtrie and journalists Paul Caruana Galizia and Clare Rewcastle Brown about the corrosive impact that SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) are having on public interest reporting
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Public interest journalism on trial in ‘libel capital of the world’
There’s more at stake than who picks up the legal bill in the trial of Banks vs. Cadwalladr. Press freedom is on the stand too