Harassment

Question 1

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997

Answer 1

s8-s11

Question 2

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 s 8(3)

Answer 2

‘conduct includes speech’, ‘course of conduct must involve conduct on at least two occasions’

Question 3

Sunderland City Council v Conn [2008] IRLR 324

Answer 3

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Question 4

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 s8A

Answer 4

relaxation of this requirement (course of conduct) in domestic abuse cases

Question 5

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 s8(3)

Answer 5

‘harassment’ of a person includes causing them alarm and distress’

Question 6

Ferguson v British Gas [2010] 1 WLR 785

Answer 6

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Question 7

Roberts v Bank of Scotland [2013] EWCA Civ 882

Answer 7

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Question 8

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 s8(1)

Answer 8

Mental element: ‘a person must not pursue a course of conduct which amounts to harassment of another and-

is intended to amount to harassment of that person; or

occurs in circumstances where it would appear to a reasonable person that it would amount to harassment of that person’

Question 9

The Protection from Harassment Act 1997 s8(4)

Answer 9

Defences: ‘It shall be a defence to an action of harassment to show that the course of conduct complained of-

was authorised by, under or by virtue of any enactment or rule of law;

was pursued for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime; or

was, in the particular circumstances, reasonable’