So many defamation legal threats are marked 'private and confidential' to limit transparency over who is using the law to curtail (fair or unfair) criticism. The legal advice we have received is that there is very little risk in publishing those threats.
Because defending defamation proceedings is *so* expensive a well funded claimant can bully critics into silence and, by marking the threats 'confidential', suppress transparency over the fact they are doing so. This feels profoundly wrong to me.
We are aware of cases of (e.g.) campaigners against sexual violence being bullied into silence, and wrongly forced to apologise, by the threat of defamation proceedings. We at @GoodLawProject intend to back those campaigners in order to discourage those threats.
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