Summary Criminal Law LL108 - Non-Fatal Non-Sexual Offences Against the Person

Criminal Law (LL108) - Non-Fatal, Non-Sexual Offences Against the Person

Contents
1. Common Assault
1.1. Elements of Assault
1.1.1. Actus Reus
1.1.2. Mens Rea
1.2. Elements of Battery
1.2.1. Actus Reus
1.2.2. Mens Rea
1.3. Punishment for Assault/Battery
2. ABH (s.47 OAPA 1861)
2.1. Elements of ABH
3. GBH (s.20 OAPA 1861)
3.1. Elements of GBH
4. Wounding with intent (s.18 OAPA 1861)
4.1. The Basics of Wounding with Intent
4.2. Elements of Wounding with intent
5. Poisoning (s.23 & s.24 OAPA 1861)
5.1. The Elements of Poisoning
6. Racially or Religiously Motivated Crimes (s.29, Crime and Disorder Act 1998)
6.1. Elements of Racially or Religiously Motivated Crimes
6.2. Further Notes
7. Harassment (Protection from Harassment Act 1997)
7.1. Elements of Harassment
8. General issues with the law
8.1. Incoherence of offence classification
8.2. Multiple offences for one type of crime
8.3. Several factual variants per offence
8.4. Underlying issue: the Victorian particularist drafting system
8.5. Disparities in sentencing
8.6. Deviation from the correspondence principle
8.7. Use of terminology
9. The Transmission of Disease
9.1. R v Dica
9.2. R v Konzani
9.3. Normative Question - Should consent be a defence to the risk of ‘some harm’?
9.4. Normative Question - Is the state of the current law on the transmission of diseases
satisfactory?
10. Table of 27 Case Notes - Non-Fatal, Non-Sexual Offences Against the Person