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Harassment & Stalking
Lawson-Cruttenden & Co is the market leader in obtaining ground breaking injunctions on behalf of individuals and corporations who have been the subject of harassment by direct action protest groups.
We are the leading practice in the areas of “harassment” and “stalking” having assisted in the drafting of the “Stalking Bill 1996″ & “Protection from Harassment Act 1997″ as well as representing the Claimant in the case of Burris v Azadani that, arguably, created the common law tort of harassment.
In short this practice specialises in conducting representative actions against individuals and groups who are conducting unlawful and tortious protesting activities against our clients. These activities are often contrary to the common law civil offences of nuisance and trespass. In particular this firm specialises in the procuring of injunctions that use the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 to provide a power of arrest to the Police for any activists who may breach any court orders made under this act.
We aim to provide a service that strikes a balance between the rights of activists to protest and voice their opinions and the rights of companies to carry on with their lawful business without the fear of harassment, and in some extreme cases, the fear of violence.
It follows that this practice constructs strategies which enable the client and the Police to control and curtail the worst excesses of any unlawful protesting activity which may be directed against them without smothering the individual’s sacrosanct right to protest lawfully and associate freely.
This firm’s clients have included Huntingdon Life Sciences, Bayer PLC, Novartis Pharmaceuticas, Aventis Pharma, RWE NPower PLC, Oxford University, British Airports Authority and a significant number of pharmaceutical companies.
One of the most high-profile cases concerned Darley Oaks Farm, a guinea pig firm which suffered a high-profile grave desecration and was the subject of a significant criminal investigation by Staffordshire Police.
On 20th October 2008 this firm will be conducting the Trial in a landmark case involving the Crawley & Horsham Hunt who are seeking to protect themselves against anti-hunt protestors.