On 14/06/2010 10:33, Andrew Tettenborn wrote:

> On 11/06/2010 18:36, Jason Neyers wrote:

>    

>> Dear Colleagues:

>>

>> Would the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 be wide enough to protect

>> a person from teenage cyber-bullying in the form of posting embarrassing

>> pictures and demeaning comments about another teenager on the web as a

>> form of revenge for some perceived slight?  I am thinking of the kind of

>> behavior that does not involve threats of physical violence. Does anyone

>> know of any cases dealing with this issue?

>>

>> Cheers,

>>

>>

>>      

> My guess is Yes, provided there's a "course of conduct." I have a memory

> of a case in the English papers a few years ago when a jitled boyfriend

> actually went to jail under the harassment legislation for posting lewd

> pictures of his ex on the Net as a matter of revenge.

>

> Best

>

> Andrew

>

>    

Re what I said above, members might be interested in 3 criminal cases:

(1)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208147/First-cyberbully-jailed-Facebook-death-threats.html

(2) http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jan/10/ukcrime.prisonsandprobation

(3)

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Pictures-ex-posted-internet/article-498204-detail/article.html

Best

A

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LAWYER, n.

One skilled in circumvention of the law. (Ambrose Bierce, 1906).