Our Dr Justin Borg-Barthet has been researching legal reforms to improve press freedoms since the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in 2017. Last week, he presented his work on reform of EU Defamation Law and chaired a strategy session at the Greenpeace anti-SLAPP symposium in Amsterdam. This was followed this week by a full-page interview in Malta’s leading daily newspaper, Times of Malta. Dr Borg-Barthet argues that EU private international law requires reform to limit vexatious lawsuits intended to suppress critical investigative journalism.
Dr Justin Borg-Barthet has been researching legal reforms to improve press freedoms
