Battery

Question 1

define battery

Answer 1

application of unlawful force onto V

Question 2

AR

Answer 2

application of unlawful force into V

Question 3

MR

Answer 3

intention/ subjective recklessness

Question 4

what case states that any touching of another person, however slight, may amount to battery

Answer 4

Collins v Willcock

Question 5

what case states that touching a person’s clothes is equivalent to touching the person

Answer 5

Thomas

Question 6

what is unlawful force

Answer 6

no consent and no pain or harm

Question 7

in what case did the officer commit battery as not arresting V so no need to take her arm

Answer 7

Collins v Wilcock

Question 8

what case explains indirect battery as D guilty of battery against child when hit woman who dropped child she was holding as he did not have to directly touch V to be guilty

Answer 8

Haystead

Question 9

in reference to omissions, what case states that liability can only arise if D under a duty to act

Answer 9

DPP v Santa-Bermudez

Question 10

what case states that the MR is that D must intend to apply unlawful force to another or recklessness as to whether such force is applied

Answer 10

Venna