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
Dica 2004
s20 - INFLICTING
HIV - GBH?
Consent - no defence under s18 but defence under s20
Konzani 2005
s20 - INFLICTING
HIV - GBH?
Recklessly
Golding 2014
s20 - INFLICTING
Herpes virus - Dica applied
Bollom 2004
s20 - GBH
Impact on particular victim
Mowatt 1968
s20 - MR
Foreseeing some harm, not gravity
Brady 2007
s20 - MR
Recklessness - objective
R v Morrison
s18 - GBH + Intent
Cunningham - subjective
Police - broken window
DPP v Pal 2000
RR Aggravated Assault
Anger at having to leave centre
White 2001
RR Aggravated Assault
African = black
Doubt S American
DPP v McFarlane 2002
RR Aggravated Assault
Jungle Bunny + Black Bastard - wrong to acquit because trigger was parking
AG Ref No 4 2004
RR Aggravated Assault
Immigrant Doctor
Rogers 2007
RR Aggravated Assault
Bloody Foreigners - not technical term
Cockburn 2008
MANTRAP
Criminal Justice Act 1988 s39
Common Assault and Battery
OAPA 1861
s47: Assault + ABH
s20: Wounding + GBH
s18: GBH + Intent
s31: mantrap
Crime and Disorder Act 1998
s28: racially or religiously aggravated
UK Borders Act 2007 s22
Assaulting immigration officer
