Injuring with Intent to GBH

Question 1

Act and section

Answer 1

S 189(1), CA 1961

Question 2

Penalty

Answer 2

10 years

Question 3

Liabilities

Answer 3

With Intent to cause GBH
To Anyone
Injures
Any Person

Question 4

Injures Intent definition and case law

Answer 4

In a criminal law context there are two specific types of intention in an offence. Firstly there must be an intention to commit the act and secondly, an intention to get a specific result.

The nature of the blow and the gash which it produced on the complainant’s head would point strongly to the presence of the necessary intent.
R v Taisalika

Question 5

GBH definition and case law

Answer 5

Grievous bodily harm can be defined simply as “harm that is really serious.”

“Bodily harm” needs no explanation and “grievous” means no more and no less than “really serious.”
DPP v Smith

Question 6

To any one definition

Answer 6

Gender neutral proven by judicial notice or by circumstantial evidence

Question 7

Injures Definition and case law

Answer 7

Injure:

means to cause actual bodily harm.
Sec. 2, Crimes Act 1961

’Bodily harm’ … includes any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of [the victim] … it need not be permanent, but must, no doubt, be more than merely transitory and trifling.
R v Donovan