S.20 OAPA

Question 0

Dica (2 precedents)

Answer 0

1. Being infected with HIV constitutes GBH.
2. Inflict may be treated as a synonym for cause, overruling Wilson where “inflict” required the application of violent percussive force to V.

Question 1

Moriarty v Brooks

Answer 1

A wound involves piercing of all the layers of the skin.

Question 2

Grundy

Answer 2

Several minor injuries may constitute GBH when taken together as the totality of V’s injuries must be taken into account.

Question 3

Burstow (2 precedents)

Answer 3

1. Sufficiently serious psychiatric injury attested to by expert evidence constitutes GBH.
2. Inflict is for practical purposes synonymous with cause though the former implies detriment of some kind to V.

Question 4

Mowatt

Answer 4

D must be subjectively reckless as to the risk of causing some harm to V (not necessarily GBH or wounding)

Question 5

Bollom

Answer 5

D’s vulnerability may affect whether an injury amounts to GBH.

Question 6

Dica and Konzani

Answer 6

If D is reckless as to the risk of infection and V lacks informed consent to that risk Dica and Konzani lay the ground for a conviction of maliciously inflicting GBH.