Definitions

Question 1

Two specific intentions in an offence

Answer 1

Intention to commit a specific act and intent to produce a specific result.

Question 2

Psychiatric harm

Answer 2

Bodily harm in s188 includes really serious psychiatric injury identified as such by appropriate specialist evidence.

Question 3

Maims

Answer 3

Depriving another of the use of their members as may render them less able

Question 4

Disfigure

Answer 4

To deform or deface pr to alter the appearance of

Question 5

Doctrine of transferred malice

Answer 5

Where the defendant mistakes the identity of the person injured, or where the harm intended on someone is accidentally inflicted on another, he is still criminally liable.

Question 6

To injure

Answer 6

To cause actual bodily harm

Question 7

Recklessness

Answer 7

The conscious and deliberate taking of an unjustified risk

Question 8

Facilitate

Answer 8

Make possible or to make easier.

Question 9

Discharge

Answer 9

To fire or shoot

Question 10

Explosive

Answer 10

Any substance, combination or mixture which in it it’s normal state is capable of either decomposition at such a rate as to cause an explosion or producing a pyrotechnic effect

Question 11

Firearm

Answer 11

Anything from which any shot, bullet, missile, or other projectile can be discharged by force of explosive. Includes any thing adapted to do so, anything which would be upon completion or or repair, and any firearm which is for the time dismantled.

Question 12

Airgun

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Use in any manner whatever

Answer 13

Includes firing or handling the firearm so as to convey an implied threat of it’s further use, or to use it in ways not normally used, such as a club.

Question 14

Prime facie

Answer 14

At first appearance

Question 15

Dishonestly

Answer 15

Without a belief of express or implied consent or authority by someone entitled to do so.

Question 16

Claim of right

Answer 16

Belief at the time in a proprietary or possessory right to the property, in relation to which the offence was committed. May be based on ignorance or mistake.

Question 17

Control

Answer 17

To exercise authoritative or dominating influence over it.

Question 18

Threat of violence

Answer 18

The manifestation of an intention to inflict violence unless the thing is handed over. The threat may be direct or veiled and conveyed by words, conduct or both.

Question 19

Extort

Answer 19

To obtain by violence, coercion or intimidation or to extract forcibly.

Question 20

Offensive weapon

Answer 20

Anything made or altered, intended, or capable of causing bodily injury.

Question 21

Assault (Intent to rob)

Answer 21

Intentionally applying or attempting to apply force to another, directly or indirectly, or threatening by any act or gesture.

Question 22

Unlawfully

Answer 22

Without lawful justification, authority or excuse

Question 23

Taking away

Answer 23

Physically removed from one place to another

Question 24

Consent

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Duress

Answer 25

Duress may arise from the actual or implied threat of force to the victim or another. Can include other forms of pressure or coercion.

Question 26

Confining

Answer 26

Restricting movements, curtailing activity and exercising control and influence over them.

Question 27

Imprison

Answer 27

Narrower meaning than confine, e.g locked in a room or the boot of a car.

Question 28

Entice

Answer 28

Tempt, persuade, or attract by a rousing hope or desire.