Cases For Not Fatal

Question 1

Assault

Answer 1

DPP v Logdon - apprehend
Smith v Chief Constable of Woking - immediate
R v Ireland - words said
R v Constanza - Words written
Read v Coker - actions
Tuberville v Savage - can prevent an assault

Question 2

Battery

Answer 2

Lightest touch - R v Thomas 
Unwanted or hostile - Wilson v Pringle 
Ordinary jostling of life - R v Thomas 
Via and object - DPP v K 
Continuing act - Fagan v MPC 
Duty to act - DPP v Santana-Bermudez

Question 3

ABH

Answer 3

More than insignificant- R v Chan Fook 
Psychiatrist harm - R v Chan Fook 
Hair - DPP v Smith 
Short loss of conciousness - T v DPP
No men’s rea needed - R v Savage

Question 4

Wounding

Answer 4

Cut or break two or more layers of skin - JCC v Eisenhower

Question 5

GBH

Answer 5

Serious harm - DPP v Smith 
Biological harm - R v Dica 
Lots of minor injuries R v Brown and Stratton 
Serious psychiatric R v Burstow 
Vulnerable -R v Bollom 
Indirectly - R v Martin

Question 6

Intention

Answer 6

Direct - R v Mohan set out or aims

Recklessness - R v Cunningham realised the risk carried on regardless

Oblique - R v Woolin
Consequence is virtually certain
D realises this

Question 7

Causation

Answer 7

Factual causation - R v Paggett but for

Legal causation - R v Smith
The operative and substantial cause

Question 8

Section

Answer 8

Section 20 some harm - R v Mowatt

Section 18 serious harm - R v Belfon