Assault Causing Harm in UK Law

  • R v Majewski
    • House of Lords
    • 13 Abril 1976
    ... ... Chelmsford Crown Court on three counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and three counts ... at the time of committing an offence causing death can only, when it is available at all, have ... ...
  • R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
    • House of Lords
    • 11 Marzo 1993
    ... ... of assaults occasioning actual bodily harm contrary to section 47 of the Offences Against ... 2 The definition of assault set forth in the 14th Report of the Criminal Law ... maiming on the one hand and wounding or causing grievous bodily harm on the other hand except ... ...
  • Wainwright v Home Office
    • House of Lords
    • 16 Octubre 2003
    ... ... the person, which includes the torts of assault, battery and false imprisonment, each with its ... " to cause physical (including psychiatric) harm. There was in his view little distinction between ... , faced with the absence of a tort of causing distress by harassment, tried to press into ... ...
  • R v R [1991]
    • House of Lords
    • 23 Octubre 1991
    ... ... pleas of guilty, of attempted rape and of assault occasioning actual bodily harm. The alleged ... her he might be charged with wounding or causing actual bodily harm, or he may be liable to be ... ...
  • R v Ireland; R v Burstow
    • House of Lords
    • 24 Julio 1997
    ... ... are relied on as constituting the assault, did not arise for decision ... LORD ... system for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to ... whatsoever … cause any grievous bodily harm to any person … with intent … to do some ... ...
  • Three Rivers District Council v Governor and Company of the Bank of England (No. 3)
    • House of Lords
    • 22 Marzo 2001
    ... ... adopted a test of "a foreseeable risk of harm" for which it relied on Bourgoin. In the present ... , for instance, for false imprisonment or assault…. In our view this intentional tort ... the potential liability of officials for causing unforeseen damage. To do so may have a ... ...
  • Robinson v Chief Constable of West Yorkshire Police
    • Supreme Court
    • 08 Febrero 2018
    ... ... negligence of the officers, and secondly assault and trespass to the person occasioned by DS ... said that he was aware of the potential for harm to members of the public if Williams tried to ... generally under a duty of care to avoid causing reasonably foreseeable personal injuries, when ... ...
  • R v Jogee
    • Supreme Court
    • 18 Febrero 2016
    ... ... On the trial of the second thief for assault and wounding with intent to murder, Garrow B ... or not he intended to cause death or serious harm. The doctrine did not apply to misdemeanours, ... innocent spectator with no intention of causing any harm. The jury must have rejected that ... ...
  • R v Rahman (Islamur) and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Julio 2008
    ... ... some members of the group were seen to assault him with blunt instrument weapons and kicks. The ... penetrated to a depth of 8 centimetres, causing massive haemorrhage, rapid collapse, rapid ... intentional infliction of serious physical harm to the deceased or, by their conduct, the ... ...
  • R v Powell (Anthony Glassford); R v English (Philip); R v Daniels (Antonio Eval)
    • House of Lords
    • 30 Octubre 1997
    ... ... an intent to kill or to cause really bodily harm. Their arguments fell into three parts, namely ... the causing of death. A person is liable to conviction for a ... was done unlawfully in the course of an assault upon him, was [the appellant] taking part in a ... ...
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