Countering SLAPPS: an imperative for a democratic society

Amendment No. 3 | Doc. 15869 | 24 January 2024

Committee

Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights

Origin

2024 - First part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 4, replace the third and fourth sentences with the following sentence:

"The claimants or their lawyers often advance aggressively framed or spurious arguments, demand exorbitant amounts of damages, and/or ramp up and draw out legal proceedings so as to force defendants to spend significant amounts of time and money to defend their case."