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SLAPPs (strategic lawsuits against public participation) are court cases designed to silence critics🔇 Join Public Interest Litigation Support EqualityCoalition Jessica Ní Mhainín & a panel of investigative journalists to discuss how to speak out in the #PublicInterest without fear. 🔗pilsni.org/events/slapps/

📢 UPCOMING EVENT📢 SLAPPs: the deliberate misuse of the legal system 📅Thursday 12 September 📍UNISON/Online ⏰️ 10:45 - 12:45 This event will focus on the deliberate misuse of the legal system to shut down public discourse Register 👇 tinyurl.com/597jfns8 Public Interest Litigation Support

At the next meeting of the Assembly Committee for the Executive Office @NIAssembly we will receive briefings from Equality Commission & EqualityCoalition on the Committee's Inquiry into Gaps in Equality Legislation 📅11 September ⏰2pm 📺niassembly.tv #ScrutinyInAction

They've been described by Index on Censorship as "prohibitively expensive, time-consuming & nerve-wracking". But what exactly are #SLAPPs & why are they a #PublicInterest concern? 📽️Here's 3 things to know ahead of tomorrow's Public Interest Litigation Support EqualityCoalition event⤵️ pilsni.org/events/slapps/

Insightful. Engaging. Enlightening. Just a few of the adjectives used by attendees to describe this morning's session on #SLAPPs UNISON NI. Thank you to everyone who joined us (in-person and online) to learn how to challenge legal harrassment 💪

The EqualityCoalition & Public Interest Litigation Support are incredibly grateful to our expert speakers: Jessica Ní Mhainín Andy Martin Tommy Greene Claire Simpson Mandy McAuley for their honest reflections on how journalists and campaigners can SLAPP back against legal intimidation.

A big thanks to Public Interest Litigation Support for the invitation to speak at EqualityCoalition's event "#SLAPPs: The Deliberate Misuse of the Legal System" UNISON NI today. Great to see so many people interested in how we can #StopSLAPPs - in Northern Ireland & beyond!

📢 Great turnout at yesterday's event 'SLAPPs: the deliberate misuse of the legal system', held in partnership with Public Interest Litigation Support Thank you to our speakers Jessica Ní Mhainín Index on Censorship Andy Martin Tommy Greene Claire Simpson Mandy McAuley for all of their valuable input.

🔦Shining a light on secretive policies 📚Untangling legislative 'spaghetti' ⚖️Holding decision makers to account Hear how CAJ Public Interest Litigation Support work together to navigate complex legal issues & ensure #HumanRights are realised. New #TBFNI episode out now! podbean.com/eas/pb-eq2h7-1…

Productive meeting with Minister Murphy this morning. We discussed a range of workers' rights issues & roll back of the Home Office Hostile Environment measures.

In September 2024, the Public Interest Litigation Support 'Short Guide to Defamation Law in Northern Ireland' went live. 🛑The threat of #defamation claims can exert a real chilling effect on activists, campaigners, and journalists. #ProBonoWeek #PILS15

📢 CAJ Annual Lecture 📢 Join us as Lilian Seenoi-Barr Mayor Derry Strabane reflects on her journey from seeking refuge to becoming a transformative leader, championing resilience, social justice & inclusivity. Register here: tinyurl.com/47e7mjbm

🗓️Hearing = sch. for 31 Jan 2025🗓️ CAJ, supported by Public Interest Litigation Support, are challenging the NI Executive's failure to adopt an anti-poverty strategy. Together with Northern Ireland Anti Poverty Network Barnardo's NI UNISON NI, we are calling for action to tackle inequality. #PublicInterestLitigation #equality

"" Northern Ireland government taken to court over anti-poverty strategy delay." Join NIAPN, CAJ, Barnardo's NI Public Interest Litigation Support UNISON NI EqualityCoalition outside High Court 31 Jan, 9.30am reuters.com/world/uk/north…

CAJ in court today with support of Public Interest Litigation Support and other members of the EqualityCoalition UNISON NI Unite the union: join a union NIPSA Conradh na Gaeilge ⭕️ INTO-NI Save the Children NI Northern Ireland Anti Poverty Network Brian W. Williams

Sheas Conradh na Gaeilge ⭕️ go bródúil lenár gcairde & ár gcomhghleacaithe CAJ EqualityCoalition ag an Ard-Chúirt inniu agus éisteacht ann maidir le teip NI Executive straitéis fhrith-bhochtanais a thabhairt isteach. Buanna Cúirte Conradh na Gaeilge ⭕️ faoi chaibidil sa chás & muid ag pleanáil cás nua #Gaeilge.

At CAJ legal challenge at the lack of an Anti-Poverty Strategy for NI with colleagues EqualityCoalition Urgent need for a funded Strategy to address rising levels of #poverty in NI & to address gendered impacts of welfare reform & rising child poverty levels here

Great turnout - of media and supporters - this morning as CAJ, supported by Public Interest Litigation Support, stepped into court. Together, we are determined to hold NI Executive accountable. We need an #AntiPovertyStrategy now! EqualityCoalition Barnardo's NI Northern Ireland Anti Poverty Network Conradh na Gaeilge ⭕️ Save the Children Northern Ireland UNISON NI

💔🗣NI Poverty: 'Some parents are spraying school uniforms with Febreze because they can't afford to wash them.' 🚨📍Charities and campaigners have come together at Stormont for the launch of an anti-poverty strategy group. 🎥🎤In order of clips, Chief Reporter James