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What is harassment?
The Harassment Act defines harassment as a pattern of behaviour (two or more separate acts within a 12-month period) directed at someone which makes that person feel distressed or unsafe.
For example if someone is harassing you they might be:
•watching, loitering near, or preventing or hindering access to or from your place of residence, business, employment, or any other place that you go to
•following, stopping, or confronting you
•entering, or interfering with, your property
•making contact with you (by phone, email etc.) when you don’t want them to
•giving you offensive material, leaving it where you will find it (e.g. online)
•acting in any way that causes you to fear for your safety, and would cause any reasonable person in the same situation to fear for their safety
What’s a restraining order?
A restraining order orders the harasser to stay away from you. Its purpose is to try to keep you safe from any future civil harassment from that person.
A person who has a restraining order against them can’t:
•do, or threaten to do, any specified act to you
•encourage another person to do any of those acts to you
This means your harasser can’t loiter around your house, call or text you, follow you, or any of the other specified acts. If the harassment includes publishing offensive material online, they must take reasonable steps to remove that offensive material.
It is a criminal offence for someone who has a restraining order against them to breach the conditions of the order.
See below for information about how to apply for a restraining order.
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