Assault and Battery in UK Law
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Ashley v Chief Constable of Sussex Police
... ... As to the second issue, the claimants have an arguable claim for battery of the deceased which cannot be struck out as disclosing no cause of ... appeal in which your Lordships must decide whether a civil case of assault and battery should be permitted to progress to a trial. Two issues of ... ...
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Wainwright v Home Office
... ... of action is trespass to the person, which includes the torts of assault, battery and false imprisonment, each with its own conditions of ... ...
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Doreen Ann Letang (Respondent) Frank Anthony Cooper (Appellant)
... ... force directly to another, the plaintiff has a cause of action in assault and battery, or, if you so please to describe it, in trespass to the ... ...
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R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
... ... 2 The definition of assault set forth in the 14th Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee (1980) ... to apprehend immediate and unlawful personal violence and a battery is an act by which a person intentionally or recklessly inflicts personal ... ...
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R v Ireland; R v Burstow
... ... by someone using the telephone are relied on as constituting the assault, did not arise for decision ... LORD STEYN My Lords, ... The first is battery, which involves the unlawful application of force by the defendant upon ... ...
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Kuddus v Chief Constable of Leicestershire Constabulary
... ... cases falling within these torts, for example false imprisonment, assault and battery, trespass to land or goods there are others, for example, ... ...
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Farrell (formerly McLaughlin) v Secretary of State for Defence
... ... by the negligence of the Ministry, its servants and agents, and by assault and batteries committed by them. It was not until the 23rd January 1974 ... defendants were such that they constituted in law an assault and battery upon his person. In particular the plaintiff complains that the force used ... ...
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R v Derby Magistrates' Court, ex parte B
... ... issued a writ against the appellant and his stepfather alleging assault and battery against both. In July 1991 the civil action came on before ... ...
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R v Deputy Governor of Parkhurst Prison and Others, ex parte Hague ; Weldon v Home Office
... ... Leeds County Court claiming damages against the Home Office for assault and battery and for false imprisonment. The relevant paragraph of the ... ...
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Sidaway (A.P.) v Bethlem Royal Hospital and The Maudesley Hospital Health Authority and Others
... ... to the person: he is also guilty of the criminal offence of assault. The existence of the patient's right to make his own decision, which may ... the law in medical cases of this kind on the torts of assault and battery. He did, however, carefully and helpfully devote part of his judgment to a ... ...
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