🔥 Huge stakes in this #SLAPPs appeal by the lawyer who tried to prevent tax justice campaigner @danneidle.bsky.social from disclosing a threatening email sent on behalf of Nadhim Zahawi after Neidle claimed the then-Chancellor had lied about his tax affairs:

I continue to be appalled at the lack of accountability around the SLAPP case that targeted me. If I can get sued for saying a warlord sanctioned by the EU, UK, and US for his role in Wagner is involved with Wagner then can we really say there's any protection for journalists in the UK from SLAPPs?

@petergeoghegan.bsky.social reports the SRA ruling that a UK law firm "broke no rules" in SLAPPing @bellingcat.com Elliot Higgins for Evgeny Prigozhin in 2021, saying there was only "public speculation" that he led Wagner. Let's post some pre-2021 "speculation".... open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

🆕 In the UK’s first #SLAPPs disciplinary case, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has today fined a lawyer £50k for improperly stifling public scrutiny when emailing @danneidle.bsky.social about his writing on the tax affairs of former Chancellor Nadhim Zawahi. Here’s our summary of the case 👇:

This is really important for investigative journalists who receive bullying lawyers' letters. I must have had scores of these fake threats