In a judgment cited by The Guardian, the court said it was "clear that neither the story, nor the fact that it has been put on sale, has a goal" to "create an intimidating, hostile, degrading or humiliating environment".
The court ruled in February 2012 that the book would not be banned, deciding that it was "clear that neither the story, nor the fact that it has been put on sale, has a goal to ... create an intimidating, hostile, degrading, or humiliating environment", and that it therefore did not break Belgian law.
Harassment Subjecting someone to unwanted conduct that violates a person's dignity or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment.
Such exposure is actionable where it violates the dignity of individual employees or customers, or creates an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them.
Harassment is legally defined as "unwanted conduct connected to a person's race or ethnic origin with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person, and of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment".
There are examples of staff successfully suing employers in respect of exposure to pornographic material at work, if it "creates a hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them", said Anna Mazzola, an associate at Bindmans LLP.
In response, the Court states that neither the album itself nor its dissemination and sale have the purpose of violating anyone's dignity or to create a humiliating or offensive environment.
Because the boys were sometimes ashamed to report these violations of their masculinity, parents and school staff were often ignorant of, or ignored, the daily demoralizing, humiliating, and taunting environments embedded in the school and community cultures where the white school shooters lived.
Ivanov, who like Putin was a KGB agent – and was once spoken of as a potential successor – was given what appears to be a humiliating demotion to the transport and environment brief.
One Tory minister joked that Mr Lansley will have to be "Spelmaned" – a reference to the humiliating policy reversal imposed on Caroline Spelman, the Environment Secretary, over the forests sale.
Institutional environments can be perceived as humiliating, and admissions to acute psychiatric wards can be stigmatizing and non-therapeutic [ 72].
