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It's a whole process of mission creep, ' Malcolm Fowler, a member of the Law Reform Board at the Law Society and a solicitor, told me. 'Ten years ago the Law Society was told that ministers would never dream of using it [the 1997 Act] for these sorts of purposes.' But the Act was misconceived from the start. It defines harassment as two or more acts of behaviour causing alarm or distress which a 'reasonable person' would agree is harassment.
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A Law That Could Make 'Stalkers' of Us All
'Stalker' has become a joke word in some quarters. A woman who complains of being stalked often means no more than that she is receiving unwanted attention from a former casual lover or perhaps a long-term partner she has just dumped. Some women even refer affectionately to their 'stalkers'.
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