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Under 12 (Under 14 from July 1 2025, except for murder, grievous bodily harm or sexual acts where the accused commits GBH, for which 12-14 year olds can be convicted) 12 to under 14 (Until 1 July 2025 for all crimes, after 1 July 2025 only for serious crimes listed left) 18: Criminal Code 2002, s25, s26
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 ...
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.
Life imprisonment is the most severe criminal sentence available to the courts in Australia.Most cases attracting the sentence are murder.It is also imposed, albeit rarely, for sexual assault, manufacturing and trafficking commercial quantities of illicit drugs, and offences against the justice system and government security.
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).
During a hearing at the Old Bailey, Gustavson, 45, from Haringey, north London, pleaded not guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent to three men on dates in 2018 and 2019.
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.
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]