Harassment

The company’s founder reportedly said to D, a senior employee who was leaving the company, ‘We will probably bump into each other in future, unless you’re married off in India’. D brought a claim for harassment under the Race Relations Act and won in tribunal which awarded her £1,000.

This Court of Appeal case concerned Mrs Ferguson trying to use the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (PHA) to claim that British Gas’s treatment of her in relation to her gas contract (threatening to cut her off and start legal proceedings against her even though she had paid her bill) was harassment as defined by the Act.

C claimed that verbal abuse and threats of physical violence from his manager (who was pressuring him and colleagues to reveal which of their workmates had left work early) had caused him psychological damage.

H claimed that the actions of his managers placed INS in breach of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (PHA) and had caused the clinical depression from which he suffered.

Deutsche Bank were found liable in negligence for acts of bullying carried out by its staff which resulted in psychiatric injury to Ms Green, and liable for harassment for the same acts under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (PHA).

M claimed that he had been bullied and harassed by his line manager. The complaint focused on criticism for time keeping at work, being isolated, and generally rude and abusive behaviour. He brought his claim under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (PHA), an Act more commonly used in stalking and other forms of personal harassment cases.