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Response to Harassment

from Eleanor Scott (eleanor.scott@btinternet.com)
I read this in the Guardian yesterday (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.

See also my post a few threads above this one, 'Harassment (cont.)'.

Good luck, Matt.

(posted 8398 days ago)

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