ABSTRACT

Park J: ... [His Lordship quoted from R v Edmonds [1963] 2 QB 142 where Winn J says, at 150-51:]

... it seems to the court that it is, to put it at its lowest, unsafe and undesirable that directions to juries based upon s 1(4) of the Act should include any reference to intent to frighten unless it be made clear in the passage in which such reference is made that the frightening must be of a kind for which the term ‘intimidation’ is far more appropriate and of a sort which is capable of producing injury through the operation of shock ...