C (A Minor) v Eisenhower
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Year | 1983 |
| Date | 1983 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division (Administrative Court) |
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6 cases
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R v Morris (Paul)
...thus (summing-up transcript page 9B): "A wound is very simply a break to the surface of the skin." However, the case of JJC (a minor) [1983] 3 All ER 230 shows that "a wound is a break in the continuity of the whole skin" and that is well established law for the purposes of section 20. On ......
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R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
...purposes of the section the whole skin must be broken and not merely the outer layer called the epidermis or the cuticles; see J.J. C. (a minor) v. Eisenhower [1983] 3 All E.R. 10"Grievous bodily harm" means simply bodily harm that is really serious and it has been said that it is undesira......
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R. v. Brown et al., (1993) 151 N.R. 321 (HL)
...2 K.B. 498 (Crim. C.A.), refd to. [paras. 6, 23, 49, 53, 54, 57, 75-77, 83, 86, 123-130, 137, 158]. J.J.C. (a minor) v. Eisenhower, [1983] 3 All E.R. 230, refd to. [para. Director of Public Prosecution v. Smith, [1961] A.C. 290, refd to. [para. 10]. R. v. Mowatt, [1968] 1 Q.B. 421, refd to.......
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R. v. Pootlass, 2019 BCCA 96
...on Crime at 920. [44] The 1861 Act, with some modifications, remains in force in the U.K. today. [45] In JJC (A Minor) v. Eisenhower, [1984] Q.B. 331 at 341, decided under the 1861 Act, Lord Justice Goff referred to the definition of “wound” as resting on “a continuous stream of authority” ......
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3 books & journal articles
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Offences against the Person: Into the 21st Century
...harm. It is read as covering any harm which ismore than transient or trivial. Famously Lynskey LJ defined it as any20 Cf. C vEisenhower [1984] QB 331, DC. See also Moriarty vBrooks (1834) 172 ER1419, Exch Ch. In R v Waltham (1849) 3 Cox CC 442, it was held that a breach inthe inner skin su......
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Banksy's Graffiti: A Not-So-Simple Case of Criminal Damage?
...such a defendant may be insane under the M’Naghten Rules if unable tounderstand the nature or quality of his act.48 R v Eisenhower [1984] QB 331.49 Road Traffic Act 1988, s. 1 (as amended); Sexual Offences Act 2003, ss 3, 78.The Journal of Criminal self-proclaimed artist who has an inflat......
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Assault and S 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861
...on the gravity of injury cannot be justified. Under s20 the harm mustbe either awound or grievous bodily harm. In R v Eisenhower[1984]QB331 it was held that in order to constitute awound the continuityofthewhole skin must be broken. The wound may involve anything from a minorbreaking or pun......