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Response to Harrassment (continued)

from Eleanor Scott (eleanor.scott@btinternet.com)
I could be wrong, Andy, but it was my understanding that the Protection Against Harassment Act was actually specifically designed to protect people from what used to be regarded as 'private' material (e.g. the endless stream of letters a person might get from an ex who won't go away). Bindman's clever ploy was to use the harassment legislation to combat what was a very public harassment of his client.

Can I just add some other food for thought (apologies for repeating this from a thread further down):

I read this in the Guardian dated 31st March 2001:

"Using the threat of prosecution to ensure payment of a disputed civil debt could offend against s21 [Section 21] of the Theft Act 1968, which prohibits making an unwarranted demand for gain with menaces, and would amount to blackmail."

The author was barrister Richard Colbey, writing in the Jobs & Money supplement (p 24-25) about the rail company Connex's pusuit of disputed civil debts, which he appears to believe is flawed in its approach for reasons including the one quoted above, i.e. the provisions of the Theft Act 1968.

(posted 8395 days ago)

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