DEFINITIONS (Serious Assaults)

Question 1

RECKLESSNESS

Answer 1

Recklessness is established if:

The defendant recognised that there was a real possibility that:
- his actions would bring about the proscribed result and/or
-that the proscribed circumstances existed and
- having regard to that risk those actions were unreasonable

Question 2

GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM

Answer 2

Grievous bodily harm can be defined simply as ‘harm that is really serious’

Question 3

INJURE

Answer 3

To cause ‘actual bodily harm’

Question 4

DELIBERATE ACT

Answer 4

Must be more than involuntary or accidental

Question 5

ACTUAL BODILY HARM

Answer 5

May be internal or external and need not be permanent or dangerous

Question 6

FACILITATE

Answer 6

To make possible or make easy/easier

Question 7

BY ANY VIOLENT MEANS RENDERS ANY PERSON INCAPABLE OF RESISTANCE

Answer 7

‘Violent means’ includes the application of force that physically incapacitates a person such as tying the victims hands and feet