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Constitutional issues at stake in R14.25-million defamation action against environmentalists and activists. ....

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NGO says inadequate financial reporting standards make it difficult to establish if mining companies are repairing their environmental damage

NGO says inadequate financial reporting standards make it difficult to establish if mining companies are repairing their environmental damage
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Webber Wentzel's Pro Bono team raises new SLAPP defence

Webber Wentzel’s Pro Bono team raises new SLAPP defence
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A recent High Court judgment confirmed the importance of public dialogue and debate in a healthy democracy. It did so by, for the first time in South Africa, recognising the SLAPP defence. SLAPP stands for Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation; and it refers to meritless or exaggerated lawsuits intended to intimidate civil society advocates, human rights defenders, journalists, academics, and individuals as well as organisations acting in the public interest. ....

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Court ruling says mining group MRC is abusing court process

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Court ruling says mining group MRC is abusing court process
Australian mining group MRC and its CEO’s attempt to bring defamation suits against South Africans questioning its environmental and corporate practices, defeated.
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In a ground-breaking ruling, Deputy Judge President Patricia Goliath has set a high bar for anyone contemplating bringing a Slapp suit as a way of silencing criticism of corporate behaviour.
The ruling says corporations should not be allowed to weaponise our legal system against ordinary citizens and activists to intimidate and silence them.
A Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation (Slapp) suit is outlawed in many parts of the world on the grounds that they are intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics, by burdening them with the cost of a legal defence until they abandon their criticism or opposition. ....

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Court agrees with activists that defamation suit was 'abuse of process'

Defamation lawsuits brought by Australian mining company Mineral Commodities Ltd (MRC) and its local subsidiary against six environmental activists was an abuse of the legal process, the high court ruled on Tuesday. ....

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