‘Gloucestershire’s police force has been criticised by the police watchdog over its handling of a young woman’s complaints about her violent former boyfriend days before she was brutally murdered as she worked in a hair salon.’
The Guardian, 30th April 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Stalkers must be stopped from using a loophole in the legal system to harass their targets, a victim has said.’
BBC News, 29th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Plans to broadcast HBO’s Church of Scientology exposé, Going Clear, have been shelved by Sky Atlantic in a virtual repeat of events two years ago, when UK publishers abandoned publication of the book on which the hard-hitting new TV documentary is based.’
The Guardian, 18th April 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A woman who stalked an anti-child abuse campaigner by “bombarding” her with Twitter messages has been given a restraining order for five years.’
BBC News, 18th April 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Military historian Kenneth Ward who was jailed in 2011 for exposing himself to a female neighbour is told he can move back to his former home after a restraining order is relaxed.’
Daily Telegraph, 6th April 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Supreme Court, 4th March 2015
‘A Christian street preacher has been convicted of delivering homophobic sermons in the middle of a high street.’
BBC News, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Married father Michael Nartey sentenced after terrorising five lovers – some of whom also had children by him – in vile campaign of abusive text messages.’
Daily Telegraph, 22nd March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Levi and another v Bates and others [2015] EWCA Civ 206; [2015] WLR (D) 119
‘It was not a requirement of the statutory tort of harassment under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 that the claimant be a target of the perpetrator’s conduct.’
WLR Daily, 12th March 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘Bystanders who cruelly taunted a man before he fell from a multi-storey car park could face legal action, police have warned.’
Full story
Daily Telegraph, 16th March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘A man has been convicted of carrying out a campaign of throwing balloons full of excrement at a club used by ex-servicemen and women.’
The Guardian, 11th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A vicar who claimed he was the victim of four years of harassment has appeared at the Court of Appeal over whether he has the right to bring an action for unfair dismissal.’
Full story
BBC News, 11th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Posting “revenge porn” images and videos on the internet is becoming a criminal offence in England and Wales.’
BBC News, 12th February 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘In the struggle against internet trolls, cyber bullying and the general way in which the advent of the internet has caused problems for the criminal law, over the weekend the latest idea to combat the evils of the internet appeared: Internet ASBOs.’
Halsbury’s Law Exchange, 9th February 2015
Source: www.halsburyslawexhange.co.uk
Regina v Chinegwundoh [2014] EWCA Crim 2649; [2015] WLR (D) 18
‘A finding that a person under a disability had done the acts charged against him was not an acquittal and did not therefore give the court the power to make a restraining order under section 5A of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997.’
WLR Daily, 20th January 2015
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
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