Must Know Caselaw Flashcards
R v Taisalika
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.
DPP v smith
Bodily harm needs no explanation and grievous means no more and no less than really serious.
R v Waters
A breaking of the skin would be commonly regarded as a characteristic of a wound. The breaking of the skin will be normally evidenced by a flow of blood and in its occupancy at the site of the blow or impact the wound will more often than not be external. But there are those cases where the bleeding which evidences the separation of tissues may be internal.
R v Rapana and Murray
The word disfigure covers not only permanent damage but also temporary damage.
R v Donovan
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 Harney
Recklessness means the conscious and deliberate taking of an unjustified risk. In New Zealand it involves proof that the consequences complained of could well happen together with an intention to continue the course of conduct regardless of the risk.
R v Tihi
In addition to one of the specific intents outlined in paras (a) (b) or (c) it must be shown that the offender either meant to cause the specified harm or foresaw that the actions undertaken by him were likely to expose others to the risk of suffering it.
R v Wati
There must be proof of the commission or attempted commission off a crime either by the person committing the assault or Blythe person whose arrest or flight he intend to avoid or facilitate.
R v Pekepo
A reckless discharge of a firearm in the general direction of a passerby who happens to be hit is not sufficient proof. An intention to shoot that person must be established.
R v Swain
To deliberately or purposely remove a sawn off shot gun from a bag after being confronted or called upon by a police Constable amounts to a use of that firearm within the meaning of s198A CA 1961.
Fisher v R
It is necessary in order to establish a charge under section 198A(2) for the Crown to prove that the accused knew someone was attempting to arrest or detain him because otherwise the element of mens Rea of intending to resist lawful arrest or detention cannot be established.
R v Skivington
Larceny (or theft) is an ingredient of robbery, and if the honest belief that a man has claim of right is a defence to larceny then it negatives one of the elements in the offence of robbery without proof of which the full offence is not made out.
R v Lapier
Robbery is complete the instant the property is taken, even if possession by the thief is only momentary.
R v Cox (possession)
Possession involves two elements. The first the physical element is actual or potential physical custody or control. The second, the mental element is a combination of knowledge and intention: knowledge in the sense of an awareness by the accused that the substance is in his possession and an intention to except use possession.
R v Maihi
It is implicit in accompany that there is a nexus (connection or link) between the act of steeling and a threat of violence. Both must be present however the term does not require that the act of stealing and the threat of violence be contemporaneous.
