Liability definitions Serious Assaults

Question 1

With Intent to cause GBH

Answer 1

Intent: desire a specific result and act with the aim or purpose of achieving it

COLLISTER
TAISALIKA

GBH: harm that is really serious

DDP v SMITH

Question 2

To anyone

Answer 2

Gender neutral, judicial notice or circumstantial evidence

Question 3

Wounds

Answer 3

R v WATERS

Question 4

Maims

Answer 4

Involves mutilating, crippling or disabling a part of the body so the victim is deprived of the use of a limb or one of the senses

Question 5

Disfigures

Answer 5

To deform or deface, to mar or alter the figure or appearance of a person

RAPANA and MURRAY

Question 6

GBH

Answer 6

GBH: harm that is really serious

DDP v SMITH

Question 7

With intent to injure

Answer 7

Intent: intent to commit the act intent to achieve a specific result

TAISALIKA

Injure
s2 CA 1961
To injure means to cause actual bodily harm

R v DONOVAN

Question 8

With reckless disregard for the safety of others

Answer 8

Recklessness is established if the Defendant recognized that there was a real possibility that:
-his action would bring about the proscribed circumstances
-the proscribed circumstances existed
Having regard to that risk those actions were unreasonable

CAMERON V R

Question 9

With intent (For 191)

Answer 9

Intent: desire a specific result and act with the aim or purpose of achieving it

TIHI

Question 10

Commit

Answer 10

To do, perform, perpetrate

Question 11

Facilitate

Answer 11

To make possible or to make easy or easier

Question 12

Avoid detection

Answer 12

Offender causes the specified harm to prevent himself or another person from being caught in the act

Question 13

Avoid arrest

Answer 13

Acts done by offenders to avoid their own or others arrest

or

help escape after the commission of a crime or attempted crime

R V WATI