Dowson v Chief Constable of Northumbria Police

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Overview

To succeed in a claim under the Protection from Harassment Act, an employee must show that the behaviour complained of amounts to at least two instances of oppressive and unacceptable conduct that is targeted at him and calculated to cause him alarm or distress. A simple situation of two people ‘not getting on’ in the workplace will not be sufficient to support a claim. And what amounts to harassment will depend to a large extent on the context of the working environment in which the conduct takes place.
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