“A Conservative candidate in a key marginal seat conducted a sustained campaign of harassment in an attempt to ‘change the political landscape’ of the town where he hoped to be MP.”
The Times, 6th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An estate agent has killed himself two weeks after being ordered to pay a former employee tens of thousands of pounds for sexual harassment.”
Daily Telegraph, 2nd August 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Coleman v Attridge Law (a Firm) and Another Case C-303/06
Court of Justice of the European Communities
“The prohibition of direct discrimination against and harassment of disabled people in employment, provided for in the Community disability directive, was not limited to employees who were themselves disabled but extended to unequal treatment and harassment of a non-disabled employee for reasons connected with the disability of his child.”
The Times, 29th July 2008
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Coleman v Attridge Law and another (Case C-303/06); [2008] WLR (D) 257
“The person whose disability gave rise to direct discrimination against an employee, so as to constitute an infringement of Directive 2000/78 on equal treatment and occupation, could in principle be a disabled child of the employee, and was not limited to the employee himself, and the same was true of harassment of the employee.”
WLR Daily, 25th July 2008
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“A judge has been sentenced to 50 hours community service after he admitted breaching a restraining order imposed following a campaign of harassment against his ex-wife and her boyfriend.”
Daily Telegraph, 21st July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A waitress has been awarded nearly £60,000 in compensation after taking her drunken boss to a employment tribunal for groping her breasts.”
Daily Telegraph, 10th July 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Record numbers of racist incidents – from verbal abuse to stabbings – are being reported to police, fuelling fears that levels of Islamophobia are rising.”
The Independent, 9th July 2008
Source: www.independent.co.uk
“One in five lesbian and gay people have been victims of homophobic aggression over the past three years, a survey of hate crime revealed today. ”
The Guardian, 26th June 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“Eleven stalkers known to target players such as Maria Sharapova and the Williams sisters have been banned from Wimbledon and warned to stay away from the area.”
Daily Telegraph, 24th June 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“A mother has been jailed and her daughter given a community order after being found guilty of harassing a gay couple in Kent.”
BBC News, 24th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Three men have been jailed for three years for a campaign of racial harassment against a Muslim colleague.”
BBC News, 17th April 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A top City lawyer who won a claim for sex discrimination after being driven from her job in an 18-month campaign of bullying is seeking £19 million in compensation.”
The Times, 18th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“An online campaign of harassment against a housing group and its chief executive has ended with a record payout for defamation on the internet.”
The Times, 4th April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A fantasist who wasted 235 hours of police time when she invented a sinister stalker named Casanova has been given a suspended prison sentence.”
The Times, 1st April 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“Employers will be duty-bound from next week to protect their staff from sexual harassment by customers, suppliers and others they encounter in the course of their work. Workers are already protected from harassment by colleagues, but under new rules which come into force on April 6, they will be able to seek damages from employers who fail to take reasonable steps to protect them from harassment by a third party, if bosses knew that at least two incidents had already taken place.”
The Guardian, 31st March 2008
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
“A man will become the first person in the UK to stand trial next month accused of harassing a woman on Facebook.”
Daily Telegraph, 5th March 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
S v Director of Public Prosecutions
“The offence under section 4A(1)(b) of the Public Order Act 1986 of displaying, with intent to cause a person harassment, alarm or distress, a visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, thereby causing that or another person harassment, alarm or distress, may be established even where the harassment, alarm or distress crystallises only at the date several months after the act of displaying and at the instance of action by a police officer.”
WLR Daily, 14th February 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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“An eminent barrister and judge whose conviction for harassing his ex-wife and her new partner was kept secret by a gagging order can be named, the High Court ruled yesterday.”
The Times, 9th February 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“More than one in ten psychiatrists has been stalked by patients or their associates, a survey suggests. A report commissioned by the Royal College of Psychiatrists has found that 10.7 per cent of its members have been victims of stalking, while one in three had suffered harassment under legal and academic definitions of the term.”
The Times, 25th January 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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