Criminal Damage

Question 1

R v Steer

Answer 1

S.1(2)(b) of the Criminal damage act 1971 - the defendant has to intend for the criminal damage to endanger life e.g. firing a bullet through a window, the broken glass has to endanger life, not the bullet.

Question 2

Hardman v Chief Constable of Avon and Somerset Constabulary 1986

Answer 2

Criminal damage will still occur, even when the damage caused is easy to fix.

Question 3

R v Dudley

Answer 3

S.1(2)(B) Criminal damage act - there is no need for anyone’s life to actually be endangered. The possibility of life being endangered is enough for conviction.

Question 4

R v Hill

Answer 4

S.5(2) criminal damage act - (reasonable excuse - property in danger) the court held that the defendant had to believe that the damage caused to protect the property in question was reasonable in all the circumstances.

Question 5

R v Denton

Answer 5

S.5(2) criminal damage act - (lawful excuse) you will still be granted a defence under this section of the act, even when the damage of the property was done with the anterior motive of committing fraud.

Question 6

Jaggard v Dickinson 1980

Answer 6

S.(5)(2) Criminal Damage Act - (lawful excuse to damage of property): even if a person is drunk, their drunken mistaken belief that the owner of the property would have consented to the damage of the property, will still be allowed as a defence.