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CRIMINAL LAW, EVIDENCE AND PROCEDURE - HARASSMENT – APPELLANT AND COMPLAINANT COHABITING PARTNERS – COURSE OF CONDUCT ALLEGED MAINLY CONSTITUTING TWO OFFENCES SIX MONTHS APART – APPELLANT CONVICTED OF HARASSMENT AND SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS IMPRISONMENT – APPEAL AGAINST CONVICTION AND SENTENCE – WHETHER VAGUE EVIDENCE LINKING THE TWO INCIDENTS SUFFICIENT TO COMPRISE A COURSE OF CONDUCT PROTECTION FROM HARASSMENT ACT 1997, S 4(1) AND (4)
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This case involved 2 incidents of violence, separated by a period of 6 months, by one partner towards another during the course of a stormy relationship. The judge ruled that this could not amount to harassment as the partners were not estranged from one another and so the act was not appropriate in these circumstances. Also there was not enough "linkage" between the two events to establish a course of conduct.
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