Non-fatal offences against the person, as set out in the Offences Against
the Person Act 1861, represents “a ragbag of offences brought together
form a wide variety of sources with no attempt, as the draftsman frankly
acknowledged, to introduce consistency as to substance or as to form”
(Prof JC Smith, 1991).
the Person Act 1861, represents “a ragbag of offences brought together
form a wide variety of sources with no attempt, as the draftsman frankly
acknowledged, to introduce consistency as to substance or as to form”
(Prof JC Smith, 1991).
