Indecent assault Flashcards
1
Q
Section
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Section 135, Crimes Act 1961
2
Q
Penalty
A
7 years
3
Q
Ingredients
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1) Everyone who
2) Indecently assaults
3) Another person
4
Q
R v Leeson
Indecent assault
A
The definition of “indecent assault” … is an assault accompanied with circumstances of indecency
5
Q
R v Court
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Indecency means” conduct that right thinking people will consider an affront to the sexual modesty of the complainant
6
Q
Indecent
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An act this is indecent has sexual connotation and involves conduct directed at a person that is offensive to public moral values.
7
Q
Assault
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- Intentionally applying or attempting to apply force to the person of another
- Directly or indirectly or threatening by any act or gesture to apply such force to the other person of another
- if the person making the threat has, or causes the other person to believe on RG’s that he has
- present ability to effect his purpose
- and to assault has a corresponding meaning
8
Q
RTS must include
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- What constituted an assault including how the act was intentional
- What made the assault indecent
