Reasons for allowing of appeal from conviction of offence of putting someone in fear.
Held: ‘The emphasis in the summing up was not on what amounts to harassment but what amounts to assault. Further direction was required as to what can be a course of conduct amounting to harassment. Description of a number of acts of violence spread over nine months during a close and affectionate relationship does not satisfy the course of conduct requirement or the requirement that it is conduct amounting to harassment.’
Judges:
Pill LJ, Bean, Macur DBE JJ
Citations:
[2011] EWCA Crim 1500, (2011) 175 JP 345, [2011] Fam Law 937, [2011] 2 FLR 869
Links:
Statutes:
Protection from Harassment Act 1997 4
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Citing:
Indistinguishable – Regina v Curtis CACD 9-Feb-2010
The defendant appealed against his conviction under the 1977 Act. He and the complainant had been in a volatile relationship. Both were police constables. He said that though there had been incidents, they had not amounted to a course of conduct . .
Cited by:
Cited – Regina v Haque CACD 26-Jul-2011
The defendant appealed against conviction under section 4(1) of the 1997 Act. It was not disputed that the prosecution had to prove (1) that there had been a course of conduct on the part of the appellant, (2) that the course of conduct had caused . .
Cited – Gerrard and Another v Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation Ltd and Another QBD 27-Nov-2020
The claimants, a solicitor and his wife, sought damages in harassment and data protection, against a party to proceedings in which he was acting professionally, and against the investigative firm instructed by them. The defendants now requested the . .
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Crime
Updated: 29 May 2022; Ref: scu.441055