Assaults

Question 1

What is ABH? ( Actual bodily harm)

Answer 1

Anything up to broken bone. To assault someone occasioning actual bodily harm must include assault and battery

Question 2

What is an assault?

Answer 2

Any action which intentionally or recklessly causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence

A verbal threat is enough, providing the victim apprehends immediate unlawful violence

Question 3

What is a battery?

Answer 3

To intentionally or recklessly apply unlawful force on another

Question 4

What is assault and battery sect 39 of the criminal justice act?

How long got report an assault and a domestic?

Answer 4

It is an offence to assault a person (by beating)

6months assault
2 yrs domestic

Question 5

What is S.20 GBH? (grievous bodily harm)

Answer 5

whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously wound or inflict any grievous bodily harm upon any other person

Question 6

What is S8 GBH with intent act?

Answer 6

– Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously by any means whatsoever wound or cause any grievous bodily harm to any person with intent

Question 7

What is transferred malice?

Answer 7

Transferred malice – provides that if a person mistakenly causes injury to a person or property other than the person or property which he intend to attack, he is guilty of a crime of the same degree as if he injured his intended target. The harm done must be of the same kind as the harm intended