Aggravated Injurying Flashcards
Section and penalty
S191(2)(a) or (b) or (c) CA61
7 years imp
Ingredients
- (a) With Intent to Commit or Facilitate the Commission of any Imprisonable Offence
OR
(b) With Intent to Avoid Detection of himself or any other person in the Commission of an Imprisonable Offence
OR
(c) With Intent to Avoid Arrest or Facilitate Flight of himself or any other person Upon the Commission or Attempted Commission of Any Imprisonable Offence - Injures
- Any Persons
Intent
There are two specific types of intention in an offence. Firstly there must be an intention to commit the act and secondly, an intention to get a specific result.
R v Taisalika
The nature of the blow and the gash which it produces on the complainants head would point strongly to the presence of the necessary intent
Commit or Facilitate
To make possible or to make easy or easier.
Avoid Detection
Offender causes the specified harm to prevent himself or another person from being caught in the act.
Avoid Arrest or Facilitate Flight
To make possible or to make easy or easier.The specified harm is caused to enable the offender(s) to more easily effect their escape, or to prevent their capture after the commission or attempted commission of an imprisonable offence.
R v Tihi
2 fold test for intent
In addition to paragraphs (a), (b) or (c), it must be shown that the offender either meant to cause the specified harm or foresaw that the actions undertaken by him were likely to expose others to risk of suffering it.
R v Wati
There must be proof of the commission or attempted commission of a crime either by the person committing the assault or by the person whose arrest or flight he intends to avoid or facilitate.
An Imprisonable Offence
Normal meaning - any offence punishable by a term of imprisonment
Injures - Sec 2 Crimes Act 1961
To injure means to cause actual bodily harm.
R v Donovan
Bodily harm includes any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim. It need not be permanent, but must, no doubt be more than merely transitory or trifling.
Person
Gender neutral. Proven by judicial notice or circumstantial evidence.