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| Wound is breaking of the whole skin |
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| GBH = really serious harm |
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| GBH can include severe psychiatric injury |
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| You can inflict GBH without assaulting someone (i.e. administering poison). |
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| Half mens rea for GBH -- must foresee the risk of SOME harm. |
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| Assault is any act that causes another person to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence. |
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| "Immediate" for the purposes of common assault can occur at any time in the future not excluding the present. |
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| An assault or battery can stem from Cunningham subjective recklessness. |
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| A person commits battery if he intentionally or recklessly inflicts unlawful force on another person. |
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| Hostile contact is required for the commission of battery. |
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| Indirect application of force will suffice in the commission of an offence against the person. |
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| Touching someone's clothing without their consent can amount to battery. |
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| Exceptions to ABH and GBH: sports and surgery. People can't consent to injury "for no good reason". |
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| Consensual activities between husband and wife will not give rise to charges. |
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| Inflicting ABH or GBH for "sexual gratification" not allowed. |
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