Serious Harm in UK Law
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R v Lang
... ... But this may not be possible if the later offences are less serious than the earlier ones ... 4 Sentencers will, almost always, need ... that there is a significant risk to members of the public of serious harm by the commission of further specified offences (section 225(1) and ... ...
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Lachaux v Independent Print Ltd
... ... as defamatory unless it had caused or was likely to cause “serious harm” to the claimant's reputation ... 2 The claimant, Bruno ... ...
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R v Woollin
... ... contend that the appellant desired to kill his son or to cause him serious injury. The issue was whether the appellant nevertheless had the intention to cause serious harm. The appellant denied that he had any such intention. Subject to one ... ...
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AMM (Conflict: Humanitarian Crisis: Returnees: FGM) Somalia
... ... [33] of Elgafaji , Article 15(c) covers a “more general risk of harm” than does Article 3 of the ECHR; that Article 15(c) includes types of ... well-founded fear of being persecuted or no real risk of suffering serious harm and the applicant can reasonably be expected to stay in that part of ... ...
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R v Jogee
... ... resulted in death, whether or not he intended to cause death or serious harm. The doctrine did not apply to misdemeanours, which included ... ...
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R v Powell (Anthony Glassford); R v English (Philip); R v Daniels (Antonio Eval)
... ... party foresees that the principal offender may commit a more serious crime than the one which the two set out to commit, and nevertheless ... an intent to kill or to cause really bodily harm. Their arguments fell into three parts, namely (1) that there is a ... ...
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HJ (Iran) v Secretary of State for the Home Department; HT (Cameroon) v Same
... ... to be required to conceal his sexual identity in order to avoid harm of sufficient severity as to amount to persecution – the proposition ... that acts of persecution must "(a) be sufficiently serious by their nature or repetition as to constitute a severe violation of basic ... ...
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R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
... ... 1 The appellants were convicted of assaults occasioning actual bodily harm contrary to section 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861. Three ... 10 "Grievous bodily harm" means simply bodily harm that is really serious and it has been said that it is undesirable to attempt a further ... ...
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R v Rahman (Islamur) and Others
... ... involved either the deliberate and intentional infliction of serious physical harm to the deceased or, by their conduct, the intentional ... ...
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Hyam v DPP
... ... Is it simply the intention to kill or cause grievous bodily harm (in the sense of really serious injury) as is commonly assumed, or is it ... ...
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