Harassment Alarm or Distress in UK Law
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Section 5 Of The Public Order Act 1986: The Impact Of Harvey v DPP
... ... sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress thereby. Unique amongst the ... ...
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Bike Cam Prosecutions
... ... harassment, alarm or distress. Although some of the more ... ...
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New UK Measures To Address SLAPPs: A Panacea Or A Missed Opportunity?
... ... harassment, alarm or distress, expense, or any other harm or ... ...
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Eight Imminent Key Changes to UK Employment Law
From as soon as 1 January 2024, the UK Government is implementing a wide range of new employment law that will affect organizations with UK operations. Below is a handy table summarizing key change...... ... workplace protections against sexual harassment; (ii) increased employee flexible working rights; ... offence for intentional harassment, alarm or distress of a person in public, carried out to ... ...
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Should We All Be Getting the Twitter “Jitters”? Be Careful What You Say Online (Particularly in the United Kingdom)
History is littered with examples of the law being slow to catch up with the use of technology. Social media is no exception. As our Socially Aware blog attests, countries around the world are ha...... ... behavior with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress under section 31 of the Crime ... ...
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Should we all be getting the Twitter 'jitters'? – Be careful what you say online
History is littered with examples of the law being slow to catch up with the use of technology. Social media is no exception. As our Socially Aware blog attests, countries around the world are havi...... ... behaviour with intent to cause harassment, alarm or distress under section 31 of the Crime ... ...
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Love thy neighbour: how the Scottish courts can assist when tensions rise
While the COVID-19 crisis has brought out the best in many people and generally brought communities together, the lockdown has meant different things for different people. Whilst we have all seen t...... ... threatened or harassed, whether that harassment comes via face-to-face interactions or electronic ... Act 1997 and includes "causing the person alarm or distress" on two or more occasions. This could ... ...
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A Question Of Harassment
... ... "harassment" includes alarming a person or causing them ... distress. In order to establish vicarious liability, the conduct ... must arise ... intended to cause alarm or distress. This concept does not fit ... easily within liability ... ...
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UK HR Two Minute Monthly: covert surveillance; holiday carry over; sexual orientation discrimination; interim relief
Our December 2019 update outlines the key UK employment law developments over the last month. It includes cases on covert surveillance, sexual orientation discrimination when there is no identifiab...... ... when there is no identifiable victim, harassment under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, ... and unreasonable and targeted to cause alarm or distress. This is in contrast to harassment ... ...
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Employers Can Be Liable For The Harassment Of One Employee By Another Online - Even Outwith Working Hours
... ... a colleague has pursued a course of conduct that causes the employee alarm or distress ... Given the increased use of social media and the ... ...
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