ABH

• S47 of offences against the persons Act 1861


  ABH is defined as 'assault or batter occasioning in actual bodily harm with intention or recklessness as to causing battery or assualt'
• Occasioning


  means to cause or bring about a conseaquence
• R v Miller


  Actual bodily harm = 'any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with v's health or comfort'
• R v Chan-Fook


  Psychiatric injury must be more than 'mere human emotions' such as panic and fear
• T (A minor) v DPP

  momentary loss of consciousness can amount to ABH
• DPP v Smith


  cutting off a substantial amount of hair can amount to ABH
• R v Savage


  intent or recklessness. - intended to throw beer (battery) and resulted in ABH