CASES

• JJC v EISENHOWER (1983) - Victims eye was hit by a shotgun pellet but this wasn't classified as a wound because it didn't penetrate the eye.
• DPP v SMITH (1961) - grievous bodily harm means 'really serious harm'
• BURSTOW (1997) - Victim of a stalker suffered a severe depressive illness as a result of the stalkers conduct. He sent notes, took photographs and made silent phone calls it was said that serious psychiatric injury can be grievous bodily harm
• DICA (2004) - Defendant had unprotected sex with two women without telling them he was HIV - positive. Both women were infected. This could amount to grievous bodily harm as consent to sex didn't involve consent to the risk of a known but undisclosed infection
• PARMENTER (1991) - House of Lords confirmed that the Cunningham meaning of recklessness applies to all offences in which the statutory definition uses the word 'maliciously'
• BELFON - Defendant slashed victim with a razor blade across face and chest. Point of law: Comes under section 18 because he has a specific intention to cause harm