UHM boss sues The Shift for exposing his government appointment
UHM Voice of the Workers Secretary General Josef Vella
The Shift Team
June 25, 2023 12:32
Journalist’s social media post was a justified ‘response to an attack’, appeals court rules
The Court of Appeal today threw out an appeal
Sean Montebello
May 10, 2023 18:12
Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murderers to testify in Joseph Muscat libel case
George and Alfred Degiorgio are due to testify in
Sean Montebello
May 8, 2023 15:51
Joseph Muscat must be held accountable
“The central cause was one man… who many others
Kevin Cassar
October 25, 2022 08:11
Witches and the public interest
The Court has thrown out four libel suits brought
Ranier Fsadni
July 10, 2022 10:15
The Shift’s reporting ‘a matter of public interest done in the public interest’, court rules
The Shift’s founder and editor Caroline Muscat and Matthew
Elizabeth De Gaetano
July 8, 2022 10:43
Ambitious timeline for EU anti-SLAPP directive
An ambitious timeline has been set for the introduction
May 11, 2021 13:55
Maltese academic appointed to European Commission Expert Group Against SLAPP
Maltese law academic Justin Borg-Barthet, whose research has been
April 23, 2021 19:36
Court judgment sends wrong message to society
Upon delivery of a court judgment on Thursday that
Victor Paul Borg
December 5, 2020 04:36
Journalists are receiving legal threats at an ‘alarming’ rate – report
The UK is “by far” the most frequent country
Joanna Demarco
November 16, 2020 11:31
UK Law firm that ‘harassed’ Daphne Caruana Galizia is under investigation
A UK based law firm which had “harassed” murdered
Gabriel Schembri
September 10, 2020 13:22
Weaponisation of the law suppressing scrutiny of power
Over 25 press freedom organisations have written to the
Joanna Demarco
May 21, 2020 09:13
State funding of the independent media
Media freedom is what it says – freedom from
The Shift Team
April 2, 2020 18:00
Journalist files second libel suit against Saviour Balzan
Former journalist Ivan Camilleri has filed another libel suit
The Shift Team
March 10, 2020 16:41
Times of Malta says it will sue journalist
The Times of Malta has said it will be
The Shift Team
March 6, 2020 12:15
Ivan Camilleri files libel against Media Today managing editor Saviour Balzan
Former Times of Malta journalist Ivan Camilleri filed a
The Shift Team
February 26, 2020 15:01
Libel suits made my mother’s life absolutely impossible – Caruana Galizia
The strategic lawsuits and libels filed against murdered journalist
February 25, 2020 12:29
Harsh libel judgments are a disservice to journalism in Malta
The high financial damages inflicted on The Sunday Times
Victor Paul Borg
February 19, 2020 05:09
European Court of Human Rights rules against Malta in majority of cases
The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled
February 15, 2020 12:10
Calls for Keith Schembri’s resignation after withdrawal of libel case on 17 Black
The Opposition and civil society organisations have called for
The Shift Team
November 11, 2019 14:39
Judicial schizophrenia
Justice Joanne Vella Cuschieri has ruled that Malta Enterprise’s right
Ryan Murdock
October 19, 2019 10:46
Caroline Muscat asks Magistrate to declare Saviour Balzan a liar
The Shift News editor has filed an application requesting
October 10, 2019 13:05
‘No adequate protective measures for Daphne Caruana Galizia’ – report
“The Mafia is a systematic threat to press freedom,”
The Shift Team
May 16, 2019 06:01
Spotlight on threats against journalists in Malta in European report
“Burned in effigy. Insulted. Menaced. Spat at. Discredited by
The Shift Team
May 10, 2019 11:11
How to prove the Press Freedom Index wrong
So, this year’s World Press Freedom Index reports that
Ranier Fsadni
April 21, 2019 06:44
‘Those responsible for Daphne Caruana Galizia murder must be brought to justice’ – UK government
The British Foreign Office has condemned the murder of
The Shift Team
April 19, 2019 13:11
Theatre of the absurd
Patrick Dalli didn’t get the result he wanted in
Ryan Murdock
March 21, 2019 12:07
OSCE Media Freedom Representative welcomes judgment for press freedom
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media has
The Shift Team
March 13, 2019 09:22
Return of the Middle Ages
They are the best of times, they are the
Ranier Fsadni
March 10, 2019 06:12
Russian banker threatens The Shift News with SLAPP lawsuit
Only hours after a conference at the University of
The Shift Team
March 7, 2019 07:35

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