Some UK law firms need to do more to guard against the risk of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) and other types of abusive litigation, according to a recent Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) review.
In the headlines recently, SLAPPs are lawsuits brought by individuals and entities to dissuade their critics from continuing to produce negative publicity.
They are intended to censor, intimidate and silence critics by burdening them with the co...