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BATTERY - Coggle Diagram

- - - - “The least touching of a person in anger is a battery”
      - The defendant must have applied the force with intention.
    - - Here, a lighted squib was thrown by the defendant into an open market area. A picked it up and threw it upon B, who then picked it up and threw it away.
      - The squib hit the plaintiff whereupon it burst into flames. Court held: the defendant was liable for the tort of trespass to person although his initial gesture did not directly affect the plaintiff. According to the court A and B reacted for their own safety, and so they did not have the required ‘intention’ to commit the act.
  - - - The defendant was riding a horse when someone hit the horse from behind., causing the horse to bolt. The horse collided with the plaintiff, and in an action against the defendant, the court found the defendant not liable as the incident of the horse bolting and colliding with the plaintiff was outside his control.
  - - - A woman police officer suspecting that a woman was soliciting contrary to the Street Offences Act 1959, the police officer tried to question her but the woman walked away. The police officer took her arm in order to restrain her. The woman scratched the officer’s arm. The woman was arrested and charged with assaulting an officer in the execution of her duty and was convicted. On appeal by case stated, appeal was allowed, on the ground that the officer had gone beyond the scope of her duty in detaining the woman in circumstances short of arresting her. The officer has committed battery.