Battery

Question 1

Collins v Wilcock Defintion

Answer 1

Actual infliction of unlawful force on another person

Question 2

Haystead v Chief Constable of Derbyshire

Answer 2

D punchec v in the face while she was holding her baby and as a result baby fell onto the floor
D conivcted of Battery on both V and baby as Battery to child was direct and forseeable of D’s conduct

Question 3

DPP v K 1990

Answer 3

D took tube of acid from chem class, while in bathroom D panicked and dumped acid into hand dryer after he left V used it was sprayed with acid.
Court held force need not be directly applied to D and as he was reckless he had the necessary MR

Question 4

R v Martin

Answer 4

D put out all the lights on stairs and blocked the doors at a theatre in order to cause panic
Led to Stampeade - several people injured
Court held a person can influct injury on another without doing so directly, through foreseability

Question 5

Implied Consent - Collins v Wilcock

Answer 5

Jostling on Underground
Having ones hand seized in friendship
Amicable back-slapping

Question 6

R v Thomas

Answer 6

D a school caretaker touched a school girl skirt. He was found guilty of Battery

Question 7

Ackner LJ - R v Thomas

Answer 7

“There can be no dispute that if you touch a person clothes while hes wearing them that is equivilant to touching them”

Question 8

Fagan v MPC

Answer 8

Ran over policemans foot, refused to move as he did not know he was parked on his foot, eventually after the officer pointed out what had happeneed he did not move
Court held the battery and remaing on the foot was a continuing act

Question 9

DPP v Santana-Bermudez 2003

Answer 9

D stopped and Searched under s.1 PACE and when asked if had any sharp or dangerous objectives in his pocked responded in the negative
Officer then pricked by hypodermic needle containing HIV and Hep C.
Charged s.47
Court held wilful omission which put officer in a danger constitted actus reus