Violence Flashcards
Section and Elements for Wounding with intent to cause GBH
S188(1) Crimes Act 1961
-With intent to cause grievous bodily harm
-To any person
-Wounds OR maims OR disfigures OR causes GBH
-To any person
Section and Elements for Wounding with intent to injure
S188(2) Crimes Act 1961
-With intent to injure any person OR with reckless disregard for safety of others
-Wounds OR maims OR disfigures OR causes GBH
-To any person
Section and Elements for Injuring with intent to cause GBH
S189(1) Crimes Act 1961
-With intent to cause GBH
-To any person
-Injures
-Any person
Section and Elements for Injuring with intent to injure
S189(2) Crimes Act 1961
-With intent to injure any person OR with reckless disregard for safety of others
-Injures
-Any person
Section and Elements for Aggravated wounding
S191(1) Crimes Act 1961
-With intent
(a) to commit or facilitate the commission of any imprisonable offence OR
(b)To avoid detection of himself or of any other person in the commission of any imprisonable offence OR
(c)To avoid arrest or facilitate flight of himself or any other person upon the commission or attempted commission of any imprisonable offence
-Wounds OR maims OR disfigures OR causes GBH OR stupefies OR renders unconscious any person OR by any violent means renders any person incapable of resistance
Define Theft
-Dishonestly
-Without claim of right
-Takes
-Any property
-With intent to permanently deprive the owner of that property
Section and Elements for Robbery
S234 Crimes Act 1961
-Theft
-Accompanied by violence OR accompanied by threats of violence
-To any person or property
-Used to extort the property stolen OR to prevent or overcome the resistance to its being stolen
Section and Elements for Aggravated robbery (GBH)
S235(a) Crimes Act 1961
-Robs any person
-At the time of, OR immediately before, OR immediately after, the robbery
-Causes GBH
-To any person
Section and Elements for Aggravated robbery (Together with)
S235(b) Crimes Act 1961
-Being together with any other person or persons
-Robs
-Any person
Section and Elements for Aggravated robbery (weapon)
S235(c) Crimes Act 1961
-Being armed with any offensive weapon or instrument OR anything appearing to be such a weapon or instrument
-Robs
-Any other person
Section and Elements for Assault with intent to rob (GBH)
S236(1)(a) Crimes Act 1961
-With intent to rob any person
-Causes GBH to that person or any other person
Section and Elements for Assault with intent to rob (weapon)
S236(1)(b) Crimes Act 1961
-With intent to rob any person
-Being armed with any offensive weapon or instrument OR anything appearing to be such a weapon or instrument
-Assaults that person or any other person
Section and Elements for Assault with intent to rob (Together with)
S236(1)(c) Crimes Act 1961
-With intent to rob any person
-Being together with any other person or persons
-Assaults that person or any other person
Section and Elements for Assault with intent to rob
S236(2) Crimes Act 1961
-Assaults any person
-With intent to rob that person or any other person
Section and Elements for Abduction
S208 Crimes Act 1961
-Unlawfully
-Takes away OR detains
-A person
-Without their consent OR with consent obtained by fraud or duress
-With intent to -
(a) go through a form of marriage or civil union OR
(b) have sexual connection with the person OR
(c) cause the person to go through a form of marriage OR civil union OR to have sexual connection, with some other person
Section and Elements for Kidnapping
S209 Crimes 1961
-Unlawfully
-Takes away OR detains
-A person
-Without their consent OR with consent obtained by fraud or duress
-With intent to -
(a) hold him or her to ransom OR to service OR
(b) cause him or her to be confined OR imprisoned OR
(c) cause him or her to be sent or taken out of New Zealand
Section and Elements for Abduction of a young person under 16
S210(1) Crimes Act 1961
-With intent to deprive a parent OR guardian OR other person having lawful care or charge of a young person
-Of possession of the young person
-Unlawfully takes away OR entices away OR detains
-The young person
Section and Elements for Abduction of a young person under 16(receiving)
S210(2) Crimes Act 1961
-Receives
-A young person
-Knowing that he or she has been unlawfully taken away OR enticed away OR detained
-With intent to deprive a parent OR guardian OR other person having lawful care or charge of him or her of the possession of him or her
Define Person
Accepted by judicial notice or proved by circumstantial evidence
What are the two types of intention in criminal law context
-intention to commit the act
-intention to get a specific result
Case law and application - R v Collister
Application - Intent
Offender’s intent may be inferred from circumstantial evidence
-the offender’s actions and words before, during and after the event
-the surrounding circumstances
-the nature of the act itself
Case law and application - R v Taisalika
Application - Intent
The nature of the blow and gash which it produced on the complainant would point strongly to the presence of the necessary intent
Case law and application -DPP v Smith
Application - GBH
Grievous means no more and no less than really serious
Findings of R v Mwai
Not limited to immediate harm
-the consequences may be delayed but are still consequences.
Examples
-unprotected sex leading to diseases
-psychiatric injury upon later discovering offending (r v Donaldson)
Case law and application - R v Waters
Application - Wound
A wound is the breaking of the skin evidenced by the flow of blood, internal or external
Define Maim
Depriving the victim of the use of a limb or one of the senses. Requires some degree of permanence
Define Disfigures
To deform or deface, to mar or alter the figure or appearance of a person. Not required to be permanent
Case law and application - R v Rapana and Murray
Disfigure covers not only permanent damage but also temporary damage
Explain the doctrine of transferred malice
It is not necessary that the person suffering the harm was the intended victim. The defendant is still criminally responsible despite the wrong target being struck
Case law and application - R v Donovan
Application - Bodily harm/injures
any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim. It need not be permanent but must be more than transitory and trifling
Case law and application - Cameron V R
Application - Recklessness
Recklessness is established if the defendant recognised that there was a real possibility their actions would bring about the proscribed result and that the proscribed circumstances existed and having regard to that risk those actions were unreasonable
Findings of R v Harney
A real possibility is substantively the same as something that could well happen (recklessness)
Case law and application - R v Tihi
Application - Aggravated
Must be shown the offender either meant to cause the specified harm or foresaw that the actions undertaken by him were likely to expose others to the risk of suffering it
Case law and application - R v Wati
Application - Facilitate Flight
There must be proof of the commission or attempted commission of a crime either by the person committing the assault or by the person whose arrest or flight he intends to avoid or facilitate
Case law and application - R v Sturm
Application - Stupefy
Effect the mind and nervous system which seriously interferes with their mental/physical ablity
Define Stupefy
To induce a state of stupor, to dull the senses or faculties