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ABH Flashcards

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ABH act

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s.47 Offences Against a Person Act 1861

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ABH definition

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any hurt or injury that interferes with with the health or comfort of the victim

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Actus reus

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That of assault or battery, occasioning actual bodily harm

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Psychiatric

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The harm can be psychiatric as in Chan Fook

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Factual causation

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‘but for’ the D committing the act, they would not have suffered the ABH

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Legal causation

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The D must be the operating and substantial cause meaning that there are no intervening acts which break the chain of causation

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Mens rea

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Intent or recklessness

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