At the half-way mark of the project, PATFox is bringing some of Europe's foremost experts, practicing lawyers, legal academics and SLAPP targets to take stock of the current state of readiness to resist abusive lawsuits across the Union.
Hosted by LIBE Committee Chair Juan Fernando López Aguilar MEP, the European Parliament event will hear from PATFox trainer Vanja Juric and Professor Justin Borg-Barthet of the University of Aberdeen’s Anti-SLAPP Hub - both members of the European Commission Expert Group on SLAPPs - together with Bettina Behrend of Rettet den Regenwald, e.V, which has been a SLAPP target.
That initial discussion will be followed by a series of roundtables bringing together those directly involved in training across the 11 project countries - Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Germany, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain - which includes some of those with the EU's most acute SLAPP problems.
The event will be streamed online.