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Harm may be of various kinds: bodily injury, psychological trauma, loss of property or reputation, breach of contract, etc. Injury may give rise to civil tort or criminal prosecution. Law recognizes certain categories of injury, such as personal injury vs. injury to property, permanent injury, irreparable injury, potential injury, continuing ...
[51] [52] In form (1), where an injury does not amount to grievous bodily harm, intent to cause grievous bodily harm (in the advancement of a different cause) must be shown. Practically, the "virtual certainty" clause cannot come into force, since grievous bodily harm was not actually caused, by definition. [51]
Injury is physiological damage to the living tissue of any organism, whether in humans, in other animals, or in plants. Injuries can be caused in many ways, including mechanically with penetration by sharp objects such as teeth or with blunt objects , by heat or cold, or by venoms and biotoxins .
Personal injury cases represent the most common type of lawsuits filed in United States federal district courts, representing 25.5 percent of cases filed in 2015. [25] Personal injury claims represent a considerably smaller percentage of cases filed in state courts. For example, in Illinois, tort claims represent approximately 7% of the civil ...
Consent to injury, or Volenti non fit injuria, is a full defence; if successful, there is no delict. As a general defence, it can take two forms: consent to a specific harmful act of the defendant; and; assumption of the risk of harm connected with the activity of the defendant. There are five requirements for the defence of consent: capacity;
It is also used in the definition of murder (as it appears in case law) in the guise of grievous bodily harm. Psychiatric disorder. Non-physical or psychiatric injury can be considered "bodily harm" whether "actual" or "grievous", but there must be formal medical evidence to verify the injury. In R v Ireland, R v Burstow, Lord Steyn said:
Such laws are sometimes used to prosecute cases of dangerous driving causing injury or death. [3] The maximum penalties for criminal negligence causing bodily harm and death are 10 years [4] (14 years if the conviction is for street racing causing bodily harm) and life imprisonment, respectively.
Pancreatic injuries occur in under 5% of blunt abdominal trauma cases. The severity of pancreatic injury depends primarily on the amount of harm caused to the pancreatic duct. [33] The stomach is also well protected from injury due to its heavy layering, its extensive blood supply, and its position relative to the rib cage. As with pancreatic ...