The defendant having pleaded guilty to an offence under the Act, involving repeated calls to the staff of a residential home, and having been sentenced, was also made subject to a restraining order that he should not ‘contact or communicate with any member of staff’.
Held: The Act did not permit such an order, and for it was substituted an order requiring not to engage in any activity which might amount to harassment.
Citations:
Gazette 06-Apr-2000, Times 11-Apr-2000
Statutes:
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 5
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – University of Oxford and others v Broughton and others QBD 10-Nov-2004
The claimants sought injunctions to protect themselves against the activities of animal rights protesters, including an order preventing them coming with a wide area around the village.
Held: The orders made were justified with the additional . .
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Crime
Updated: 15 May 2022; Ref: scu.85390