Law - Battery
- Created by: Abi White
- Created on: 02-04-15 17:34
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- Battery
- Defintion
- Common law offence
- Criminal Justice Act 1988 section 39
- Intentional or reckless infliction of unlawful force on another person
- Collins V Wilcock
- Common law offence
- Actus Reus
- Infliction
- Direct (eg- punch)
- Indirect
- DPP v K
- unlawful force
- Includes the slightest touching
- Infliction
- Mens Rea
- Intention as to inflict unlawful force on V
- Reckless as to inflict unlawful force
- Defintion
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