Assault

Question 0

Ingredients for

ASSAULT

Answer 0

Assaults

Another person

Question 1

Four types of assault

Answer 1

• Direct
• Indirect (pulling chair out)
• conditional (threats of assault with conditions eg you won’t be assaulted if…)
• Transferred malice

Question 2

Assaults

Answer 2

Acts of intentionally applying or attempting to apply force to the person of another directly or indirectly
OR
threatening by any act or gesture to apply such force to the person of another if the person making the threat has, or causes the other to believe on reasonable grounds that they have the present ability to effect their purpose.

Question 3

Another person

Answer 3

ANOTHER PERSON other than the offender

Question 4

Ingredients for

ASSAULT WITH A WEAPON

Answer 4

Assaults

Another person

Using anything as a weapon
OR
Having anything with him or her in circumstances that prima facie show an intention to use it as a weapon

Question 5

Using anything as a weapon

Answer 5

An OBJECT of some sort, whether animate or inanimate, must be USED AS A WEAPON.

Question 6

Having anything with him or her in circumstances that prima facie show an intention to use it as a weapon.

Answer 6

AN OBJECT OF SOME SORT, whether animate or inanimate, must be either ON THE OFFENDER or REASONABLY AVAILABLE to them.

The CIRCUMSTANCES must be sufficient to SHOW AN INTENTION TO USE the OBJECT AS A WEAPON.