Definitions

Question 1

Intent

Answer 1

To commit the act and get a specific result

Question 2

Grievous bodily harm

Answer 2

Harm that is really serious

Question 3

Person

Answer 3

Gender neutral. Proved by judicial notice and circumstantial evidence

Question 4

Maims

Answer 4

Deprive the victim of the use of a limb or of one of the senses. Needs to be some degree of permanence.

Question 5

Disfigures

Answer 5

To deform or deface, to mar or alter the figure or appearance of a person

Question 6

Injure

Answer 6

Means to cause actual bodily harm

Question 7

Reckless

Answer 7

Involves consciously and deliberately taking an unjustifiable risk

Question 8

Stupefies

Answer 8

Means to induce a state of stupor, to make stupid, groggy or insensible, to dull the senses or facilities

Question 9

Render

Answer 9

To render means to cause to be or cause to become. The offenders actions must cause the victim to lose consciousness

Question 10

Ransom

Answer 10

A sum of money demanded or paid for the release of a person being held captive

Question 11

Confine

Answer 11

Can include restricting their movements to within a geographical area, but also has a wider meaning that includes curtailing their activity and exercising control and influence over them.

Question 12

Imprison

Answer 12

Means to put them in prison or to confine them as if in prison.

Question 13

Unlawfully

Answer 13

Without lawful justification or excuse

Question 14

Young person

Answer 14

Means a person under the age of 16 years

Question 15

Facilitate

Answer 15

Means to make possible, or to make easy or easier

Question 16

Claim of right

Answer 16

A belief in a proprietary or possessory right in property in relation to which the offence is alleged to have been committed

Question 17

Property

Answer 17

Any real or personal property or any interest in any or personal property.

Question 18

Being armed with

Answer 18

Have easily accessible, ready to use as a weapon

Question 19

Consent

Answer 19

A person conscious and voluntary agreement to something desired or proposed by another

Question 20

Reckless

Answer 20

Consciously and deliberately took a risk (subjective test)
The risk was one that was unreasonable to take in the circumstances as they were known to the offender (Objective test – whether a reasonable person would have taken the risk)

Question 21

Theft

Answer 21

Dishonestly, and without claim of right takes any property with intent to deprive the owner permanently of that property

Question 22

Dishonestly

Answer 22

Without consent from a person with authority

Question 23

Extort

Answer 23

To obtain by coercion or intimidation

Question 24

Offensive weapon

Answer 24

Any article made or altered for the use of causing bodily injury, or intended by the person having it with him for such use.

Question 25

Assault

Answer 25

As per s2 1961 the intentional application of force to a person of another, directly of indirectly

Question 26

Discharge

Answer 26

Means to “fire or shoot”

Question 27

Firearm

Answer 27

Means anything from which any shot, bullet, missile, or other projectile can be discharged by force of explosive.

Question 28

Airgun

Answer 28

Includes -
Any weapon from which any shot, bullet, missile or other projectile can be discharged by the use of compressed gas or air.

Question 29

Prevent

Answer 29

Means to keep from happening

Question 30

Overcome

Answer 30

Means to defeat; or to prevail over; to get the better of in a conflict.

Question 31

Entice

Answer 31

Means to tempt, persuade, or attract by arousing hope or desire

Question 32

Fraud

Answer 32

Deceive a person by misrepresenting the facts.

Question 33

Violent means

Answer 33

Includes the application of force that physically incapacitates a person.

Question 34

Takes away

Answer 34

Physically move from one place to another

Question 35

Detains

Answer 35

Impose constraint or restraint