Indecent Assault

Question 1

Section and act

Answer 1

Sec 135 Crimes Act 1961

Question 2

Penalty

Answer 2

7 Years Imprisonment

Question 3

Ingredients

Answer 3

1) Everyone
2) Indecently Assaults
3) Another Person

Question 4

Everyone

Answer 4

Gender neutral. Proven by judicial notice or circumstantial evidence.

Question 5

Case law:

R v Leeson Indecent Assault

Answer 5

The definition of indecent assault is an assault accompanied with circumstances of indecency.

Question 6

Indecent act

Answer 6

An act that is indecent has sexual connotations and involves conduct directed at a person that is offensive to public moral values.

Question 7

Case law:

R v Court - Indecency

Answer 7

Indecency means conduct that right thinking people will consider an affront to the sexual modesty of the complainant.

Question 8

Assault

Answer 8

Assault means the act of 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 person of another, if the person making threat has, or causes the other to believe on reasonable grounds that he has the present ability to affect his purpose;

Sec 2 Crimes Act 1961

Question 9

Another person

Answer 9

Gender neutral. Proven by judicial notice or circumstantial evidence