Weapons/Threats/Offences against person

Question 1

What is definition of offensive weapon?

What act and section?

Answer 1

Any person without
Lawful authority
Reasonable excuse
Has in a public place an offensive weapon

Offensive weapon is any article
Made
Adapted
Intended (carried with intent to cause injury)
To cause injury to another person

Question 2

What knife is acceptable to have in possession in public?

Answer 2

Folding knife

Less than 3 inches

Question 3

Under what section and act is bladed/sharply pointed articles?

Answer 3

Section 27(a) Criminal justice Act 1991

Offence to have in public without good reason or authority

Question 4

what is definition of threats to kill?

Answer 4

without lawful excuse makes a threat to cause death of that person or a 3rd party (or serious injury to), intending that they would fear it would be carried out

Sec 31 - Criminal Code

Question 5

what is important to prove the offence of threats to kill?

Answer 5

that offender intended for victim to fear the threat would be carried out
does not matter if intended victim did not believe the threat or fear the threat

Question 6

what is torture?

what article of human rights relates?

Answer 6

intentionally inflicting severe pain or suffering onto another
committed by public official as part of official duties
or with consent of or influence from a public offcial

torture is against Article 3 of the Human Rights Act - prohibition of torture

Question 7

what is defence of torture?

Answer 7

prove had lawful authority, justification or excuse

Question 8

what is poisoning?

Answer 8

Sec 38 Criminal Code
unlawfully and maliciously administer to or cause to be administered or to be taken by another, any poison or other destructive or noxious thing as to endanger life or the person or to inflict GBH

Sec 39 - with intent to injure/aggreive/annoy

Question 9

what is false imprisonment?

Answer 9

unlawful and intentional/reckless restraint on a person’s freedom of movement