OAP Flashcards
Smith v Superintendent of Working Police Station 1983
ASSAULT
Looking through window - no intention of carrying out threat
Burstow, Ireland 1997
ASSAULT
Silent phone calls
Intended to cause fear + so understood
Fagan v MPC 1968
BATTERY
Positive Act - initial act of touching through car
DPP v K 1990
BATTERY
Acid hand dryer
Haystead v Chief Constable of Derbyshire 2000
BATTERY
Struck mother holding baby - battery to baby - no matter technique
DPP v Santana Bermudez 2004
BATTERY
Needle - reckless
R v Venna 1976
COMMON ASSAULT - MENS REA
Police - mistake, fracture hand when kicking another officer’s foot
Cunningham recklessness - foresight of physical contact
Savage, Parmenter 1991
s47 - ASSAULT ABH - MR
Beer Glass - dismissed
Played with son - allowed
Cunningham - intended or foresaw - no need to foresee gravity
R v Roberts 1971
s47 - ASSAULT ABH - AR
Jump car - indecent proposals
R v Chan-Fook 1994
s47 - ASSAULT ABH - AR
Psychiatric injury - question suspect
Bodily - includes nervous system
R v DPP 2003
s47 - ASSAULT ABH - AR
Physical pain not necessary
DPP v Smith 2006
s47 - ASSAULT ABH - AR
Pony Tail - intrinsic; concerned with the body
JCC v Eisenhower 1983
s20 - WOUNDING
Break in the continuity of the whole of the skin
R v Martin 1881
s20 - INFLICTING
Fire exit
No need for direct application of force
Burstow 1997
s20 - INFLICTING
Cause and inflict - no radical divergence
Psychological conditions can be inflicted