R v O'Neill
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Judge | Lord Justice Gross |
| Judgment Date | 23 March 2016 |
| Neutral Citation | [2016] EWCA Crim 92 |
| Docket Number | Case No: 201500063 C3 |
| Court | Court of Appeal (Criminal Division) |
| Date | 23 March 2016 |
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R v Celia Tan
...which causes that person alarm, fear or distress." 17 It is submitted that that direction was inadequate. Reliance is placed in particular on R v N [2016] Cr App R 10, a decision of this court in which case it was also said that the judge's direction on the meaning of harassment was inadequ......
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DPP v Doherty (1), DPP v Doherty (2), DPP v Doherty (3)
...legislation is wider, however, enabling harassment to be done “by any means” in contrast to the specific methodologies of the 1997 Act. In R v ZN [2016] EWCA Crim 92, followed in Lang v Crown Prosecution Service [2017] EWHC 339 (Admin), communications were mostly made to the victim, but so......
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R v Celia Tan
...misconduct must be of an order which would sustain criminal liability under section 2." 16 The matter was further considered in the case of R v N [2016] EWCA Crim 92; [2016] 2 Cr App R 10, in which Gross LJ considered the appropriate direction that might be given to a jury in a case of har......
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Lang v Crown Prosecution Service
...accepted that he had sent the text messages. 4 The justices record that they were referred to the definition in harassment in R v N(Z) [2016] EWCA Crim 92, [2016] 2 Cr App R 10. They record in particular that: “‘Harassment’ is generally understood to involve improper oppressive and unreaso......
2 books & journal articles
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A Critical Analysis of the Law Commission's Proposed Cyberflashing Offence
...EWCA Crim 2413.41. Protection from Harassment Act 1997, ss 1(1)(a), 1(1A) (a) and 7(1).42. R v Smith [2012] EWCA Crim 2566 [24]; RvN[2016] EWCA Crim 92 [38].Wang 45 Although S.7(2) states that references to harassment include alarming the person or causing the persondistress, alarm or distr......
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A Critical Analysis of the Law Commission's Proposed Cyberflashing Offence
...EWCA Crim 2413.41. Protection from Harassment Act 1997, ss 1(1)(a), 1(1A) (a) and 7(1).42. R v Smith [2012] EWCA Crim 2566 [24]; RvN[2016] EWCA Crim 92 [38].Wang 45 Although S.7(2) states that references to harassment include alarming the person or causing the persondistress, alarm or distr......