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"A-Z of legislation: Protection from Harassment Act 1997". The Guardian. 4 November 2009. Edward Countryman, The Guardian, 7 January 2009, Those behind the harassment law did not want it to stifle protest; Home Office Research Study 203 An evaluation of the use and effectiveness of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 [permanent dead link ]
Employers have vicarious liability for harassment by their employees under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, (see Majrowski v Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust). For employees this may provide an easier route to compensation than claims based on discrimination legislation or personal injury claims for stress at work, as the elements of ...
PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd [2016] UKSC 26 is a UK constitutional law case in which an anonymised privacy injunction [n 1] was obtained by a claimant, identified in court documents as "PJS", to prohibit publication of the details of a sexual encounter between him and two other people. [1]
Injunctions in English law are a legal remedy of three types. Prohibitory injunctions prevent an individual or group from beginning or continuing actions which threaten or breach the legal rights of another. Mandatory injunctions are rarer and compel a person to carry out a certain act such as make restitution to an injured party.
An injunction is an equitable remedy [a] in the form of a special court order that compels a party to refrain from specific acts. [1] [2] It was developed by the English courts of equity but its origins go back to Roman law and the equitable remedy of the "interdict".
thereby causing that or another person harassment, alarm or distress. (2) An offence under this section may be committed in a public or a private place, except that no offence is committed where the words or behaviour are used, or the writing, sign or other visible representation is displayed, by a person inside a dwelling and the person who is ...
The ASBO represented "a form of personalised criminal law." [35] It had to be relevant to their particular anti-social behaviour. Orders should not have been drafted too widely or imprecisely. Each prohibition had to be necessary. [36] An ASBO was very similar to a civil injunction, even though the differences are important.
The Liberal Democrat politician John Hemming used parliamentary privilege to reveal the litigant involved in the case CTB v News Group Newspapers.. Parliamentary privilege in the United Kingdom is a legal immunity enjoyed by members of the House of Commons and House of Lords designed to ensure that parliamentarians are able to carry out their duties free from interference.