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Finally, Amendment 86 would reproduce the “three-strike rule” that applied to the third-party harassment clause of the Equality Act as originally enacted in 2010, whereby an employee could not sue their employer for third-party harassment unless it had happened three times, regardless of whether the third party was the same person or a different person. Incidentally, the third-party harassment clause in the Equality Act was repealed by the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 after it proved so unpopular with employers. If bringing back the three-strike rule is too much, then I hope the Minister will at least accept Amendment 87, proposed by my noble friend Lady Noakes, which would place some reasonable limitations on the number of claims that can legitimately be brought.