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ACT

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  • s.47 Offences Against the Person Act 1861
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defintion

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  • is a result crime
  • common assault occasioning actual bodily harm
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ACTUS REUS

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assault or battery

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ACTUS REUS
cases definition

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  • ‘any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim’ MILLER
  • more than trivial, but less than serious CHAN FOOK
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ACTUS REUS
two harms

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  • cutting off hair (DPP V SMITH)
  • psychiatric harm (CHAN FOOK)
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CAUSATION
factual

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  • ‘but for’ D’s assault/battery, victim would not have been harmed
  • R v White
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CAUSATION
legal

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  • D’s common assault/battery contributes to the harm in more than a minimal way and is the operating and substantial cause
  • R v Smith
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CAUSATION
novus actus interveniens

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  • medical negligence (extra-ordinary) R V CHESHIRE
  • act of a third party (operating and substantial) R V SMITH
  • victims own actions (reasonably foreseeable) R V ROBERTS
  • act of god
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MENS REA

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intention - MOHAN
recklessness - CUNNINGHAM

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MENS REA
other rules

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  • transferred malice (LATIMER)
  • coincidence rule (FAGEN)
  • strict liability
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