‘Universities should overhaul guidelines on dealing with allegations of sexual assaults and harassment, according to a taskforce set up by the government. Current guidelines were written in 1994 and should be updated to reflect legal changes and the effect of social media, the Universities UK taskforce said.’
BBC News, 18th March 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Two children who say they suffered “harassment and worse” whilst being brought up on a tough council estate have won the right to sue for massive compensation.’
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Director of Public Prosecutions v Henderson [2016] EWHC 464 (Admin)
‘The defendant was charged with three offences of racially aggravated harassment, contrary to section 31(1)(b) of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and, in the alternative, three offences of harassment, contrary to section 4A of the Public Order Act 1986. Both sets of offences were alleged to have been committed against the same victims and arose out of the same set of facts. Following the trial, the defendant was convicted of the three racially aggravated offences but, having heard submissions from the defendant’s representative, the district judge declined to announce a verdict on the section 4A offences (“the underlying offences”) and adjourned the case. The matter came before a different district judge who concluded that the facts of the underlying offences had been proved before the district judge at trial with the result that guilty verdicts should be returned in relation to the three underlying offences, with no separate penalty being imposed. In so doing, the district judge rejected the defendant’s submission that the correct course of action, the aggravated offences having been proved, was to adjourn the underlying offences sine die pursuant to the power in section 10 of the Magistrates’ Court Act 1980. The defendant challenged his conviction on the underlying offences by way of an appeal by case stated.’
WLR Daily, 9th March 2016
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) is updating its guidelines on social media to incorporate new and emerging crimes that are being committed online and to provide clear advice to help the prosecution of cyber-enabled crime.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 3rd March 2016
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘Daniel Curran, star of Heir Hunters, has been ordered to disclose documents relating to defamatory allegations made against his rival.’
Daily Telegraph, 23rd February 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The Administrative Court has upheld an anti-social behaviour order prohibiting a man from engaging in any behavior likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to any of a local authority’s employees for five years.’
Local Government Lawyer, 11th February 2016
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘A transgender couple who claim local villagers subjected them to a campaign of harassment won damages from the council after defamatory comments were published on its website.’
Daily Telegraph, 8th February 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A hundred judges and magistrates have received written threats connected to cases they presided over during the past five years, the Ministry of Justice has revealed.’
The Guardian, 1st February 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A 25 year old man who used social media to harass a man because of his disability has been sentenced to six weeks imprisonment.’
CPS News Brief, 27th January 2016
Source: http://blog.cps.gov.uk
‘Escort given restraining order preventing her from contacting supercar sales executive after sending details to bosses of his ‘submissive sexual lifestyle’.’
Daily Telegraph, 15th January 2016
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘On Tuesday 29th December 2015, Section 76 Serious Crime Act 2015 came into force, this introduced the new criminal offence of “Controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship“. This offence has been introduced to strength the powers of the police, prosecution and courts in combating domestic abuse and dealing with those cases when an individual is trapped in a controlling and abusive relationship, but may not have been physically assaulted. It is also aimed to deal with the difficulties of obtaining convictions for offences under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 as evidence in the case of R v Curtis [2010] EWCA Crim 123; [2010] 1 Cr. App. R. 31.’
Park Square Barristers, 6th January 2016
Source: www.parksquarebarristers.co.uk
‘Since the government introduced fees for employment tribunals, together with legal aid cuts, disabled people have increasingly been unable to have their cases heard.’
The Guardian, 6th January 2016
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Home Office is drawing up proposals to hit stalkers with protection orders to prevent them from contacting strangers on the internet and in person.’
Daily Telegraph, 5th December 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A stalker terrorised a best-selling author for seven-years after when she sat next to him on a trans-Atlantic flight.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Simone Joseph, 37, was sentenced today at Hendon Magistrates’ court to 16 weeks suspended for 18 months for racially aggravated intentional harassment. This relates to an incident on a 206 bus on 13th October 2015.’
Crown Prosecution Service, 13th November 2015
Source: www.cps.gov.uk
‘The boss behind a banned cancer “wonder drug” has been found guilty of sex discrimination after writing “Red lipstick, heels – good” on his personal assistant’s job application.’
Daily Telegraph, 17th November 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘At long last the long awaited new Country Guidance case on Sikhs from Afghanistan is out. The case is TG and others (Afghan Sikhs persecuted) (CG) [2015] UKUT 595 (IAC).’
Free Movement, 9th November 2015
Source: www.freemovement.org.uk
‘The father of three sisters who brought employment claims against an award-winning chef has said tribunal fees could put people off filing a dispute.’
BBC News, 9th November 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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