battery

• Battery can be defined as the application of unlawful force onto another person, intending either to apply unlawful physical force to another or being reckless as to whether unlawful force is applied.
• The actus reus of battery is the application of unlawful force to another person.
• What is the significance of the case of collins v wilcock?

  a mere touch can amount to the actus reus of battery
• what is the significance of the case of pegram v dpp?

  It shows how it is lawful for a police officer or any other person to make moderate and generally acceptable physical contact with another person to attract their attention.
• which case shows how it is lawful for a police officer or any other person to make moderate and generally acceptable physical contact with another person to attract their attention?

  Pegram v DPP
• Which case shows how a mere touch can amount to the actus reus of Battery?

  Collins v Wilcock
• What is the significance of the case of r v thomas?

  it shows how touching one's clothes can amount to the actus reus of battery
• which case shows how touching one's clothes can amount to the actus reus of battery?

  r v Thomas
• what is the significance of the case of dpp v K???

  It shows how a battery can be committed indirectly
• Which case shows how a battery can be committed indirectly?

  DPP v K
• what is the significance of the case of dpp v santana - burmudez

  It shows how a battery can be done through an omission.
• which case shows how a battery can be done through an omission?

  DPP v Santana - Burmedez
• which section of which legislation defines battery?

  Section 39 of the criminal justice act 1988
• The men's rea of battery:

  • D intends to inflict unlawful violence on V or is subjectively reckless#
  • This can either be direct or an oblique intention to inflict violence