Battery

• What type of offence is battery?

  Common law
• What is the maximum sentence of battery according to s39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988?

  6 months imprisonment
• What section of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 tells us the maximum sentence of assault is 6 months imprisonment?

  s39
• What is the definition of battery?

  The application of unlawful physical force with the intention to apply unlawful physical force or being reckless as to whether such force is applied
• What are the three elements of battery?


  Application

  Unlawful

  Physical force
• What does DPP tell us about an application?

  It need not be direct
• Which case tells us an application need not be direct?

  DPP