Battery

• Haystead (Application of force)

  Punched woman and woman dropped baby - Indirect force sufficient for battery to exist
• Thomas (Application of force)

  Touching a persons clothes can be battery (direct)
• DPP V Santana Bemudez (battery must be an act)

  Defendant asked by officer if had any sharp objects in pocket before searched and police officer then pricked by hypodermic needle
• Collins V Wilcock (unlawful force)

  Police woman grabbed prostitutes arm to stop her walking away but without having arrested her
• Venna

  Defines mens rea of battery