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When would letters being sent be considered harassment? Anyone ever gone down that route?

I know this because I was harassed/stalked by someone (malicious unwarranted and aggressive communications and lies, including virtually tracking me down to my workplace, probably via my DD's social media account) and of course, I went to the Police about them.

Harassment is defined in this Act, as a 'course of conduct' described here:

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/40/contents

However, the debt firm would say they had a reason to write to you re the parking charge:

(3)Subsection (1) [F4or (1A)] does not apply to a course of conduct if the person who pursued it shows—
(a)that it was pursued for the purpose of preventing or detecting crime,
(b)that it was pursued under any enactment or rule of law or to comply with any condition or requirement imposed by any person under any enactment, or
(c)that in the particular circumstances the pursuit of the course of conduct was reasonable.

beamerguy

toblerone13 wrote: »

I have re-read it but thank you so so much for your comments. You've put my mind at ease and restored my resolve to beat this stupid thing. It does make me so cross that they can intimidate without it being illegal. When would letters being sent be considered harassment? Anyone ever gone down that route?

Well of course it is harassment but sad to say a difficult
one claiming.

Unfortunately, when POFA 2012 was introduced, the
government was conned into believing that the two
ATA's which these parking companies have to belong
to for DVLA details, would behave themselves but of
course they have not and so it turned into a big scam
and the government is still being conned.

There is a MP's private members bill due out in early 2018
and we hope this will scupper these scammers.
You should ask your MP to support this.

The rules about taking people to court changed 1st Oct
which means the scammers have now many hoops
to jump through and as we are seeing, the scammers
are failing to abide by the new law

Umkomaas

Unfortunately, when POFA 2012 was introduced, the
government was conned into believing that the two
ATA's which these parking companies have to belong
to for DVLA details, would behave themselves but of
course they have not and so it turned into a big scam
and the government is still being conned.

There was only one ATA at the time of PoFA (BPA) and it was their mistruths, smoke and mirrors that persuaded the Government that the courts would be far less burdened than previously if Keeper liability was included.

In those days there was hardly any court case anywhere - now look at the daily lists.

And like any swirling predator, with huge amounts of money in their sights, it wasn’t long after that Messrs Hurley and Davies spawned the IPC.