{"id":1481,"date":"2017-10-23T23:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justycja.co.uk\/legal\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2017-10-23T23:31:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T23:31:00","slug":"the-case-of-harvey-weinstein-the-power-of-coming-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/the-case-of-harvey-weinstein-the-power-of-coming-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"The case of Harvey Weinstein – the power of coming forward (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAuthor: Priya Cunningham at Thompsons Solicitors (see website<\/span><\/a>)
\nHarvey Weinstien \u2013 a name little known in the mainstream, until recent weeks. The name is now synonymous with abuse, sexual harassment, assault, degradation and misuse of power. <\/span><\/span>
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\nIn the past weeks a growing number of women have come forward with accusations against the producer. The accusations include rape, sexual assault, physical attacks and threatening and demeaning behaviour. The same theme or pattern emerges in most of these stories. Essentially, a powerful man abuses that position of power to the detriment of woman who are seeking to further their careers in Hollywood. <\/span>
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\nReports from the victims of these assaults record how they were left feeling after being attacked. The reports include the following:<\/span>
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\n\u201cdisgusted and embarrassed<\/i>\u201d British actor Lysette Anthony <\/span>
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\n\u201chorror, disbelief and shame<\/i>\u201d Anonymous actor who claims she was raped<\/span>
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\n\u201chorrible trauma<\/i>\u201d Italian actor Asia Argento <\/span>
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\n\u201cviolated<\/i>\u201d British actor Ramola Garai <\/span>
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\nOk, so you may not be an aspiring Hollywood actor. However, you do, as an employee, have a right to protection from harassment and unwanted sexual advances from your employers and your fellow workmates. This can include conduct both inside and outside of the workplace. <\/span>
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\nThe Equality Act 2010 defines harassment as unwanted conduct which has the effect of making a person feel humiliated, degraded or offended. Sexual harassment is defined as unwanted conduct of a sexual nature and can cover unwanted touching, sexual comments or jokes and sexual assault. <\/span>
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\nWeinstein\u2019s conduct not only falls squarely within the definition of sexual harassment within the Equality Act, but also clearly amounts to criminal behaviour. <\/span>
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\nRamola Garai reports feeling belittled by Weinstein\u2019s disgusting behaviour towards her and says she \u201cdidn\u2019t feel like I had the right to complain<\/i>\u201d. Another actor, Heather Graham, reports that after she refused Weinstein\u2019s advances she was never hired for one of Weinstein\u2019s films. Actor Asia Argento is quoted expressing her fear that Weinstein would \u201cruin her career<\/i>\u201d if she didn\u2019t comply with his requests. <\/span>
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\nObviously, and sadly, in these cases women have genuine fears that in defending themselves, or speaking up against harassment, they are damaging their careers. Actor Rosanna Arquette, who starred in Pulp Fiction, who stood up for herself and saw off an attack from Weinstein was told by him that she was making a huge mistake; she claims that her career later suffered.<\/span>
\nTBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Priya Cunningham at Thompsons Solicitors (see website) Harvey Weinstien \u2013 a name little known in the mainstream, until recent weeks. The name is now synonymous with abuse, sexual harassment, assault, degradation and misuse of power. \u00a0 \u00a0 In the past weeks a growing number of women have come forward with accusations against the producer. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"1481","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","en-US"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.justycja.co.uk\/legal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}