Actual Bodily Harm

Question 1

Source

Answer 1

• Assault or battery occasioning actual bodily harm
• S.47 Offences Against the Person Act 1861

Question 2

AR

Answer 2

• Occasioning = causing (rules of causation)
• ABH = “hurt/injury calculated to interfere with health/comfort” need not be permanent but “not so trivial as to be wholly insignificant”
• Includes psychiatric (Miller) and hair cutting (DPP v Smith)

Question 3

MR

Answer 3

• MR for assault/battery
• No additional MR required (Roberts)