Causing Serious Harm in UK Law

  • R v Lang
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 03 Noviembre 2005
    ... ... possible if the later offences are less serious than the earlier ones ... 4 Sentencers ... risk to members of the public of serious harm by the commission of further specified offences ... serious, offences; and, secondly, the causing thereby of serious harm to members of the public ... ...
  • R v Jogee
    • Supreme Court
    • 18 Febrero 2016
    ... ... or not he intended to cause death or serious harm. The doctrine did not apply to ... innocent spectator with no intention of causing any harm. The jury must have rejected that ... ...
  • R v Moloney
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Marzo 1985
    ... ... ( a ) intends to kill or do serious harm; or ( b ) foresees that death or ... : "to kill with the intention of causing grievous bodily harm is murder only if grievous ... ...
  • Hui Chi-ming v The Queen
    • Privy Council
    • 26 Septiembre 1991
  • 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 ... " means simply bodily harm that is really serious and it has been said that it is undesirable to ... maiming on the one hand and wounding or causing grievous bodily harm on the other hand except ... ...
  • 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 ... , the breach must have been sufficiently serious, and there must be a direct causal link between ... the potential liability of officials for causing unforeseen damage. To do so may have a ... ...
  • Attorney General's Reference (No 27/2013); R v Burinskas; R v Phillips
    • Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
    • 04 Marzo 2014
    ... ... must be passed if the offender commits a serious offence, is dangerous and the seriousness of the ... risk to members of the public of serious harm occasioned by the commission by him of further ... 1(1) of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and Causing Grievous Bodily Harm with Intent, contrary to ... ...
  • OBG Ltd and another v Allan and Others
    • House of Lords
    • 02 Mayo 2007
    ... ... inducing breach of contract (Mainstream), causing loss by unlawful means (Hello!) interference with ... article "Intentional Infliction of Harm by Unlawful Means" (1999) 115 LQR 411-437 , ... time and at worst a potential source of serious confusion; and the broader the principle, the ... ...
  • R v Ireland; R v Burstow
    • House of Lords
    • 24 Julio 1997
    ... ... system for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to ... of a persistent offender who causes serious psychiatric illness to another. For the future ... whatsoever … cause any grievous bodily harm to any person … with intent … to do some ... ...
  • Hyam v DPP
    • House of Lords
    • 21 Marzo 1974
    ... ... intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (in the sense of really serious injury) as is ... , which extended the felonious offence to causing grievous bodily harm by any means if done "with ... ...
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