Criminal Law Offences Against The Person

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s18 OAPA

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Actus Reus-D unlawfully wounds or causes GBH to V
Mens Rea- D intends to cause GBH or D foresees some harm and intends to resist lawful arrest

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Taylor

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P must prove D intended to wound or cause GBH

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Morrison

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necessary to establish D's intention to resist arrest and that he might do some harm

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Belfon

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s18 is a crime of intention only

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Bryson

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intention encompasses direct and oblique intention

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s20 OAPA

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Actus Reus-unlawful wounding or inflicting GBH
Mens Rea-intention or SR as to some harm

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Savage & Parmenter

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wound need not result from a battery

Intending or foreseeing some harm is sufficient

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JCC v Eisenhower

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a wound involves a break in both layers of the skin

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Smith

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GBH is really serious harm

ABH includes cutting off a women's ponytail

V and D need not be together at the time of the assault

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Brown

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seriousness of the injury is determined objectively

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Bollom

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GBH standard for children may be lower than that of adults

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Grundy

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injuries taken as a whole may amount to GBH

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Dica

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GBH includes infection with HIV+ virus

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Ireland & Burstow

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s20 includes psychiatric harm

s47-V being certain that D might use force is sufficient

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Sullivan

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An intention to frighten is insufficient for s20

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s47 OAPA

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Mens rea-
assault/battery- Roberts
occasioning-Savage
Actual bodily harm

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Miller

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ABH is any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of V

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Chan-Fook

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harm not so trivial as to be wholly insignificant

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T v DPP

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ABH can include a momentary loss of consciousness

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R v D

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ABH does not include psychological harm falling short of psychiatric illness

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Fagan

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D intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend the application to his body of immediate unlawful force

an assault cannot be committed by omission

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Lamb

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v must actually apprehend the application of unlawful force

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Constanza

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an assault can be caused by words alone

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Turberville

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words can negate an assault

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Read v Coker

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words can reinforce the assault

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Horseferry

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harm apprehended must be immediate but this is approached flexibly

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Collins & Wilcock

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battery is actual infliction of unlawful force on another person

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Day

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Contact with V's clothes will suffice for battery

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Thomas

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D need not feel such contact

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Martin

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Battery may be an indirect force

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Santa Bermudez

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omission-d will be liable for consequences resulting from his failure to take reasonable steps to rectify a dangerous situation