The Justice for Journalists (JFJ) Foundation and the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) are delighted to announce the first UK anti-SLAPP conference to be held on Monday 22nd November and Tuesday 23rd November 2021.

Journalists around the world are facing a significant, yet often hidden, challenge to their role as public watchdogs. The use of vexatious legal threats, often referred to as Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation (SLAPP), have proliferated globally in recent years. They are brought by the powerful and wealthy, eager to avoid scrutiny, to intimidate journalists into either not publishing or removing information from the public domain.

This two-day conference will bring together experts from across the globe to delve into this topic and examine the impact it has on journalists, media freedom and wider society. It will also specifically look at the dual role the UK plays both as a promotor of media freedom through its Global Campaign and as a leading international source of vexatious threats against journalists (as underscored by the findings of FPC’s 2020 Unsafe for Scrutiny survey).

The conference will take place in a hybrid format, accessible both online and in-person, in London. You can register to attend and see the full conference agenda here: anti-slappconference.info. Space to attend in person will be limited, so please write to events@fpc.org.uk to apply.

See all panelists on our Youtube channel and subscribe to the see 2022 conference: