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Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm (Actual Bodily Harm (ABH) ("…
Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm
S.47 Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (OAPA)
Common assault occasioning actual bodily harm
Common Assault
Assault or battery
Assault
: make V apprehend immediate unlawful violence
Battery
: apply unlawful force
Occasioning
Common assault causes the harm
FC
: but for Ds common assault V would not have been harmed
(Pagett)
LC
: Ds common assault contributes to the harm in a more than minimal way
(Smith) (Kimsey)
Actual Bodily Harm (ABH)
"More than trivial but less than serious"
(Chan Fook)
Physical, psychiatric or clinical but not emotions
(Chan Fook)
T V DPP
: knocked unconscious
DPP V Smith
: includes damage, not just inury
DPP V K
: contact does not need to be direct
Mens Rea
Only MR for the common assault (assault or battery: intention or subjective recklessness to do the AR)
No MR for the harm
(Savage)
Roberts
: D only needed MR for the initial battery