Web Harassment

Aussie201

Hey all,

I need a bit of information regarding some web harassment that i've been experiencing with a business partner. Basically things turned sour over the past couple of months so just today he's set up an actual website with my name as the web address and he is revealing alot of personal information on it (checks, text messages, bank statements, photos etc etc) and said he's going to send it to everyone he knows and my family. very creepy and weird believe me i know!
I was wondering is there any way I could have the website pulled? or even can i sue him for this? surely this isnt legal! Should I report this to the guards? He's been told by my solicitor to contact me only through my solicitor but yet he still send me slander emails.
Its pretty much got to the point where its gone way too far and I need some advice please?

thanks in advance!

cushtac

Defamation is not a Garda matter, talk to a solicitor.

pirelli

cushtac wrote: »

Defamation is not a Garda matter, talk to a solicitor.

No! It is a garda matter. There are laws against harrassment.

cushtac

pirelli wrote: »

No! It is a garda matter. There are laws against harrassment.

It's not a Garda matter.

Section 10 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997:

10.—(1) Any person who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, by any means including by use of the telephone, harasses another by persistently following, watching, pestering, besetting or communicating with him or her, shall be guilty of an offence.

If he's put up a website but is not communicating with her, he's not harassing her.

MagicSean

cushtac wrote: »

It's not a Garda matter.

Section 10 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997:

10.—(1) Any person who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, by any means including by use of the telephone, harasses another by persistently following, watching, pestering, besetting or communicating with him or her, shall be guilty of an offence.

If he's put up a website but is not communicating with her, he's not harassing her.

The emails he sends her are communicating.

Stercus Accidit

Speak to a solicitor, if the comments on the website are negative this could be a clear cut case of defamation, this person is in for a nasty reality check when they hear from your solicitor.

pirelli

Aussie201 wrote: »

. Basically things turned sour over the past couple of months so just today he's set up an actual website with my name as the web address and he is revealing alot of personal information on it (checks, text messages, bank statements, photos etc etc) and said he's going to send it to everyone he knows and my family.

cushtac wrote: »

It's not a Garda matter.

Section 10 of the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person Act 1997:

10.—(1) Any person who, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, by any means including by use of the telephone, harasses another by persistently following, watching, pestering, besetting or communicating with him or her, shall be guilty of an offence.

If he's put up a website but is not communicating with her, he's not harassing her.

When he communciates this information to his family then it is harrassment and you might know that the law isn;t always foucsed on the complainant and i am not going to quote case law but when someones breaks the law there does not always have to be a complainant. Under this act i can see it being more stringent but i would iumagine the other members of the family could report the harrassment as a family.

Aussie201

Thanks for the replies. Ive printed hard copies for my solicitor to take a look at in the morning. Hopefully this can be sorted out as this is rather shamefull

Thanks again for the inputs!