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Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH - Both Sections) - Coggle Diagram
Grievous Bodily Harm (GBH - Both Sections)
S.20 GBH
s.20 Offences Against the Person Act 1861
Unlawful and malicious wounding or inflicting GBH
AR
GBH
The injuries need not be life threatening or permanent - Bollom - child had bruises all over their body, this accumulated to be GBH
Can include the transmission of disease - Dica - infected two women with HIV, he knew he had it and did not inform them
Can be direct or indirect - Martin
Can include psychiatric injury - Ireland;Burstow
It means serious or really serious harm - Smith - policeman threw himself at the car to stop the d from driving off, d did it anyway, Saunders
Wounding
For there to be a wound there has to be a break in the continuity of the skin - Eisenhower - shot with air gun pellet, ruptured blood vessel, didn’t bleed
A dog can be a weapon if it is under your control and you set it on another - Dune
MR
Intention - to cause some harm
Reckless - realise the risk that some harm may occur - Mowatt, DPP v A
S.18 GBH
s.18 Offences Against the Person Act 1861
Unlawful and malicious wounding or causing GBH with intent
AR
Wounding or Causing GBH
See s.20 notes but also remember Darryl Rowe was first individual to be charged with s.18 GBH for the transmission of a disease.
MR
Intention to cause serious harm / can be direct or oblique (Nedrick;Woollin)