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Sexual assault in the first degree (Grievous bodily harm inflicted with the intent of sexually penetrating another person) Act of indecency in the first degree (Grievous bodily harm inflicted with the intent of committing an "act of indecency" upon another person). "Act of indecency" is not defined in the Crimes Act 1900 of which it forms a part.
Bodily harm is a legal term of art used in the definition of both statutory and common law offences in Australia, Canada, England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions. It is a synonym for injury or bodily injury and similar expressions, though it may be used with a precise and limited meaning in any given jurisdiction.
Grievous bodily harm includes any permanent or serious disfiguring, death of a fetus, or causing a person to contract a grievous bodily disease. [8] If A intentionally inflicts grievous bodily harm on B and B dies, then A is guilty of B's murder. The more difficult concept for culpability is "reckless indifference to human life". [7]
The judge-alone trial in the Supreme Court of Queensland began in July last year and lasted several months. ... doubt that the pair had intended to kill or cause grievous bodily harm to Elizabeth ...
In the NSW Crimes Act 1900 murder is defined as follows: [9] [10]. Murder shall be taken to have been committed where the act of the accused, or thing by him or her omitted to be done, causing the death charged, was done or omitted with reckless indifference to human life, or with intent to kill or inflict grievous bodily harm upon some person, or done in an attempt to commit, or during or ...
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (and derivative offences) Inflicting grievous bodily harm or causing grievous bodily harm with intent (and derivative offences) [2] These crimes are usually grouped together in common law countries as a legacy of the Offences against the Person Act 1861.
'Bodily harm' needs no explanation, and 'grievous' means no more and no less than 'really serious'. DPP v. Smith was followed in R v. Chan-Fook. [30] Hobhouse LJ. said of the expression "actual bodily harm", in contending that it should be given its ordinary meaning: We consider that the same is true of the phrase "actual bodily harm".
An assault which is aggravated by the scale of the injuries inflicted may be charged as offences causing "actual bodily harm" (ABH) or, in the severest cases, "grievous bodily harm" (GBH). Assault occasioning actual bodily harm This offence is created by section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100).