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Non-fatal offences Flashcards

1
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Actus reus for assault

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causing V to apprehend immediate unlawful violence

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2
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Assault - 3 ways that violence can be anticipated

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Actions (Logdon)
Silence (Ireland)
Words (Constanza)

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Assault AR - immediate

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Does not have to be straight away, V doesn’t need to know how or when (Smith v Chief Police)

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Assault AR - unlawful violence

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without consent

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Mens rea for assault

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intentionally or recklessly causing V to anticipate immediate unlawful violence

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Actus reus for battery

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Unlawful application of force to another person

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7
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Battery AR - application of force

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Can be the slightest touch

  • direct (Wood)
  • indirect (DPP v K)
  • omission (DPP v Santa)
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8
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Battery AR - another person

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Includes clothing (Thomas)

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Mens rea for battery

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Intentionally or recklessy applying unlawful force to another person

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10
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Cases for intention and recklessness

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Intention - Mohan

Recklessness - Cunningham

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Actus reus for S.47

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Assault or battery causing ABH

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Causation, key points, cases

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Factual, but for, Paggett
Legal, more than min, Kimsey
Intervening acts, break chain, Jordan
Thin skull rule, take V as they are, Blaue

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13
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Actual bodily harm

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any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the comfort of the victim

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14
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3 key points and cases for ABH

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Must be more than trivial (Miller)
Can be physical or psychological (Chan Fook)
Age can be considered (Bollom)

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Mens rea for S.47

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Intentionally or recklessy causing the initial assault or battery

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Actus reus for S.20/18

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Unlawfully causing a wound or grievous bodily harm

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S.20/18 AR - unlawfully

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Without consent, cannot consent to GBH or death (Brown)

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S.20/18 AR - wound

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A cut or break in the whole skin (JJC v Einsenhower)

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19
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S.20/18 AR - what is GBH

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Serious harm (Saunders)
-can be a selection of minor injuries (Brown v Stratton)
20
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Mens rea for S.20

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intentionally or recklessly causing another person some harm (Mowatt)

21
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Mens rea for S.18

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Intentionally causing serious harm (Belform)

22
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Assault + Battery max. sentence

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6 months jail, £5000 fine

23
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S.47/S,20 max. sentence

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5 years jail

24
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S.18 max. sentence

25
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Logdon

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Someones action can form an assault

26
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Ireland

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Silence can form an assault

27
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Constanza

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Words can form an assault

28
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Smith v Chief police station

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V doesn’t need to know how or when violence will occur to form an assault

29
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Wood v DPP

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Direct force can form a battery

30
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DPP v K

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Indirect force can form a battery

31
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DPP v Santa

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An omission can form a battery

32
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Thomas

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Application of force to another persons clothes can form a battery

33
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Mohan

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Direct intention

34
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Cunningham

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Recklessness

35
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Paggett

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Factual causation - Would consequence have happened but for D’s conduct

36
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Kimsey

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Legal causation - were D’s actions a more than minimal cause of the consequence

37
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Blaue

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Thin skull rule - take V as they are

38
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Miller

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Injury for ABH must be more than trivial

39
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Chan Fook

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Injury/hurt for ABH can be psychological

40
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Bollom

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Age can be considered when looking at injury for ABH

41
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Savage

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MR for ABH - Intentionally or recklessly causing initial assault or battery

42
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JJC v Eisenhower

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A wound is a cut or break in the whole skin, breaks a layer

43
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Saunders

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GBH is serious harm

44
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Mowatt

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S.20 MR - intentionally or recklessly causing some harm

45
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Belform

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S.18 MR - intentionally causing serious harm

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