S47

• Actus reus elements:

  assault/battery

  occasioning (causation)

  actual bodily harm
• Common assault

  any case from assault and battery
• Ocassioning (causing)

  Any case from factual or legal causation
• Miller

  Can be minor harm
• DPP V Smith

  Definition extended to hair being cut
• Chan Fook

  Psychiatric harm can contribute to GBH
• Roberts

  mens rea for s47 is intention or recklessness and Savage confirmed this