GBH 18

• Grievous means 'really serious harm'...

  Smith
• ...but 'not life threatening'

  Saunders
• GBH can be psychiatric

  Burstow
• GBH can be deliberate infection with disease

  Dica, Golding
• The severity of injury depends on the V's age/health

  Bollum
• The act must be unlawful which creates issues with consent and surgery

  Melin
• Internal bleeding without a cut to the skin isnt sufficient as a wound

  Eisenhower