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Text of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 as in force today (including any amendments) within the United Kingdom, from legislation.gov.uk. Neighbours From Hell in Britain: Harassment from your Neighbour; Weaver v. NATHFE - Race Discrimination Case; A Flight into the Cuckoo's Nest A comprehensive account of the Weaver case
Poole Borough Council had not breached their duty of care in respect of children placed in local authority housing where the children had been subject to harassment and abuse by neighbours. The court found that X v Bedfordshire CC was no longer good law. [25] In the matter of an application by Dennis Hutchings for Judicial Review (Northern Ireland)
However, whilst it is 'evident that the 1997 Act created an offence of potentially enormous scope, 'Not any trivial act of harassment will do; there is a minimum level of alarm and distress which must be suffered in order to constitute harassment.' [7] This has been specified in previous case law that mere alarm or distress might not be enough ...
The contemporary rationale of employers' vicarious liability is as applicable to this new wrong as it is to common law torts. 28. Take a case where an employee, in the course of his employment, harasses a non-employee, such as a customer of the employer. In such a case the employer would be liable if his employee had assaulted the customer.
English v Sanderson Blinds Ltd [2008] EWCA Civ 1421 is a UK labour law case on the question of whether a person can claim discrimination for sexuality without being (or without revealing that one is) actually gay. The Court of Appeal decided that it was irrelevant whether someone was gay or not or the bullies believe the person is gay or not ...
Vento v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police [2002] EWCA Civ 1871 is a UK labour law case, concerning the measure of damages for discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. It set out a three band scale of damages, known as the Vento bands , which are updated each year for inflation.
Clause (c) allows for a defence on the grounds of reasonable behaviour. This interpretation will depend upon case law. In Dehal v Crown Prosecution Service, Mr Justice Moses ruled that in cases involving freedom of expression, prosecution is unlawful unless it is necessary to prevent public disorder: "a criminal prosecution was unlawful as a result of section 3 of the Human Rights Act and ...
UK Tax Law, Value Added Tax: Judgment following a referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union [d] (CJEU) in a previous supreme court case (see 2020 UKSC 15). The CJEU had confirmed that a trader could not recover VAT on supplies made to it where the original supplier and HMRC had mistakenly treated the original supplies as exempt ...