Law - Malicious GBH/Wounding
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- Created on: 02-04-15 18:32
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- Maliciously Wounding or GBH
- Definition
- maliciously wounding or inflicting grevious bodily harm
- Offences against the person act 1861 section 20
- Actus Reus
- Wounding
- Injury which breaks both layers of skin
- Does not include internal wounding
- JCC v Eisenhower
- GBH
- Serious harm
- Need not be life threatening
- Psychiatric harm
- R v Burstow
- Infection
- R v Dica
- Serious harm
- Consider impact on individual
- R v Bollom
- Wounding
- Mens Rea
- Maliciously
- Intention as to or reckless as to cause some harm
- Some harm = less than harm actually suffered
- R v Parmenter
- Intention as to or reckless as to cause some harm
- Maliciously
- Definition
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