Serious Assault - Definitions

Question 1

Intent

Answer 1

-to commit the act and to get a specific result

Question 2

Grievous Bodily Harm

Answer 2

Harm that is really serious.

Question 3

Any person

Answer 3

Gender neutral and the fact the visitor is a person is generally accepted by judicial notice or proved by circumstantial evidence.

Question 4

Wounds

Answer 4

A wound is a breaking of the skin evidence by the flow of blood. May be internal or external. (R v WATERS).

Question 5

Doctrine of transferred malice

Answer 5

It is not necessary that the person suffering the harm was the intended victim.
Where the defendant mistakes the identity of the person injured, or where harm intended for one person is accidentally inflicted on another, he is still criminally responsible, under the doctrine of transferred malice, despite the wrong target being struck.

Question 6

Acting recklessly

Answer 6

deliberately ran a risk.
The risk was one that was reasonable to take in the circumstances.