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1
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Section and penalty

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Sec 189(1) Crimes Act 1961

10 years imp

2
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Ingredients

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1) With Intent to Cause GBH
2) To anyone
3) Injures
4) Any person

3
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Intent

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There are two specific types of intention in an offence. Firstly there must be an intention to commit the act and secondly, an intention to get a specific result.

4
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R v Taisalika

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The nature of the blow and the gash which it produced on the complainant’s head would point strongly to the presence of the necessary intent.

5
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Grievous Bodily Harm

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Grievous bodily harm can be defined as harm that is really serious.

6
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DPP V Smith

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Bodily harm needs no explanation and grievous means no more and no less than really serious.

7
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Injures - Sec 2 Crimes Act 1961

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Means to cause actual bodily harm.

8
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R v Donovan

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Bodily harm includes any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim. It need not be permanent but it must, no doubt, be more than merely transitory and trifling.

9
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Any Person

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Gender neutral. Proven by judicial notice or circumstantial evidence.

10
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Injuring with intent to cause GBH liability

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With intent to cause GBH
- intent meaning
- R v Taisalika
- GBH meaning
- DPP v Smith
To anyone
- person meaning
Injures
- injures S2
- R v Donovan
Any person
- person meaning