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Showing posts with label abuse of process. Show all posts
Showing posts with label abuse of process. Show all posts
Friday, April 14, 2023

South African court upholds common law abuse of process as defense in prototypical anti-enviro SLAPP

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Petitioners demand EU anti-SLAPP legislation in 2022. Ekō via Flickr CC BY 2.0 The Constitutional Court of South Africa upheld the use of...
Thursday, September 15, 2022

Land dispute implicates 'second element of second path of second stage' of anti-SLAPP analysis, and we're all supposed to pretend the world's better for it

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The Supreme Judicial Court studies its anti-SLAPP framework. Argonne National Laboratory CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr Anti-SLAPP analysis in ...
Wednesday, July 6, 2022

Privilege shields attorney from bankruptcy creditor's claim of sham proceeding to hide client's assets

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mohamed hassan CC0 via PxHere The litigation privilege shields an attorney from tort liability in the conduct of a case, the Massachusett...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Despite lack of statute, anti-SLAPP blocks mining company suit as abuse of process in South Africa

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Coffee Bay is a tourist destination on the Eastern Cape. ( photo by Jon Rawlinson CC BY 2.0 ) Two weeks ago, a South African court recogni...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Singapore Supreme Court rejects civil process torts

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In August, the Singapore Supreme Court refused to adopt the tort of abuse of process and refused to extend the tort of malicious prosecution...
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Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Anti-SLAPP gone wild: Massachusetts tightens the reins

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The anti-SLAPP cases kept coming from the Massachusetts appeals courts in May.   I posted previously on anti-SLAPP in the Massachusett...