openDemocracy has joined forces with Fleet Street bosses to urge the UK government to stop the rich and powerful using the courts to intimidate journalists.
More than 70 leading editors, lawyers, publishers, and journalists have warned that the UK’s legal system is being abused by oligarchs and vested interests to silence the media from exposing corruption and wrongdoing.
The coalition, which includes the editors of The Guardian, The Times, The Telegraph, The Mirror and this website, have signed a joint letter to the secretary of state for justice, Dominic Raab, urging him to make good on a promise to reform the law to protect journalists.
