Non-Fatal offences cases

Question 1

Assualt is complete if the V fears that the offences will be violent.

Answer 1

Smith v Woking (1983)

Question 2

Slience may amount to an assualt.

Answer 2

Ireland (1999)

Question 3

Words can negate an assualt.

Answer 3

Tuberville v Savage (1669)

Question 4

Where the V apprhends immediate unlawful personal violence an assault could be commit even if it was no actual threat.

Answer 4

DPP v Logdon (1976)

Question 5

Words can amount to an assualt.

Answer 5

Constanza (1997)

Question 6

Any touching may be a battery.

Answer 6

Collins v Wilcocks (1984)

Question 7

A battery can also an indirect act.

Answer 7

DPP v Haystead (2000)

Question 8

Even a minimal touch can amount to a battery.

Answer 8

R v Thomas (1985)

Question 9

Define the meaning of ABH.

Answer 9

Chan Fook (1994)

Question 10

Lost of consciousness amounts to ABH.

Answer 10

T v DPP (2003)

Question 11

The cutting of hair amounts to ABH.

Answer 11

Smith (2006)

Question 12

Mens Rea S.47 is intention or recklessness to either assualt and battery,no need to prove intend will foresee the injury that occurs.

Answer 12

R v Roberts (1971),R v Savage (1991)

Question 13

Battery can committed through a continuing act.

Answer 13

Fagan (1968)

Question 14

Battery could be committed by omission.

Answer 14

DPP v Santana-Bermudez (2004)

Question 15

Defined GBH as a serious harm.

Answer 15

Smith (1961)

Question 16

Psychological harm may also regard as GBH.

Answer 16

Burstow (1997)

Question 17

Defining ‘Wound’ as breaking 2 layers of the skin.

Answer 17

Eisenhower (1984)