Curriculum Resources for Anti-SLAPP training

PATFox is developing Europe’s first anti-SLAPP curriculum, drawing both on international expertise and European human rights principles, as well as local procedural knowledge and case law.

A handbook for our core EU and international law module is now available, alongside SLAPP case studies drawn from 11 EU member states, local curriculum materials and videos.

You can use the drop-down menu on the left to sort these curriculum materials by:

  • country

  • format (eg video, core curriculum)

  • language

Alternatively, you can view a full index of resources posted to date.

Details of future PATFox training events can be found on our calendar,

Naomi Colvin Naomi Colvin

Case Study - SLAPP in Slovakia

This case study takes as its focus the suit Administrator of Hlavnespravy.Sk website vs the Konšpirátori.Sk project (in Slovak)

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Case Study - SLAPP in Cyprus

In order to give a broad impression of the current situation in Cyprus, this report includes a selection of three cases where it was publicly reported that individuals or organisations were facing intimidation for exercising their rights of expression, regardless of whether such conduct has been formally classified as a SLAPP

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Case Study - SLAPP in Croatia

Croatia has been recognized as one of the EU member states with the highest number of SLAPP cases. One group of cases that have been internationally recognized as SLAPPs are the series of actions brought by Croatian Radio Television (HRT) against Hrvoje Zovko, their employee of twenty years and the president of the Croatian Journalists Association

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Case Study - SLAPP in Germany

This report focuses a cross-border SLAPP case that received broad public attention: the action taken against the Munich Environmental Institute and the author Alexander Schiebel by a South Tyrolean (Italy) official and more than 1,300 apple farmers

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Case Study - SLAPP in Malta

This case study provides a detailed procedural history of Case 126/2017 Muscat Joseph vs Caruana Galizia Matthew, and three related cases, which are ongoing as of January 2023

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Case Study - SLAPP in Bulgaria

The main case study for Bulgaria illustrates the use of proceedings over a long period, from 2009 to the beginning of 2023, against businessman and media owner, Mr. Ivo Prokopiev

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Case Study - SLAPP in Poland

This study firstly aims to diagnose the characteristics of unjustified legal actions, both under civil and criminal law, directed against individuals in order to limit their participation in public life and, more broadly, to create a chilling effect on society in Poland

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Case Study - SLAPP in Slovenia

This case study includes a detailed procedural history of a key Slovanian SLAPP case - Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) v. Rudolf Rizman

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Case Study - SLAPP in Hungary

A survey of the SLAPP phenomenon in Hungary, with a special focus on how GDPR is being used to launch abusive lawsuits

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Case Study - SLAPP in Romania

This study surveys the SLAPP phenomenon in Romania and examines a series of intimidatory legal suits initiated by Bucharest politician Daniel Băluță against newspaper Libertatea and its staff

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