Harassment Flashcards
1
Q
AOP
A
protection from harassment act 1997
2
Q
Defined
A
Defined as causing another person alarm or distress - designed to deal with - both civil and criminal actions
3
Q
s.3
A
Two criminal offences
4
Q
Offence 1
A
Pursuing a course of conduct amounting to harassment ( can be speech or actuons but needs to have happened on at least 2 occasions)
5
Q
offence 2
A
Putting the victim in fear of violence
6
Q
sentencing
A
Both summary with 6 months imprisonement (s.2) but also allows civil remedy of compensation, injunction (Majrowski)
7
Q
Malicious communications act 1998
A
offence of sending any malicious communications to another - includes letter or electronic comunication
Must be indecent or grossly offensive, threatening, false, lead to distress of recipient
