actual bodily harm

• Miller


  ABH is any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the victim
• R v Chan Fook


  Psychiatric harm can be ABH
• T v DPP


  Making someone unconscious is ABH
• DPP v Smith (Michael)

  Cutting V's hair can amount to ABH
• Actus reus of ABH

  Any act that causes the victim to apprehend the use of immediate unlawful force

  against them and experience actual bodily harm as a result
• Mens rea of ABH

  Intention or recklessness
• R v Mohan


  Direct intent
• R v Woolin


  Oblique intent
• R v Cunningham


  Recklessness
• R v Pagett


  Factual causation: 'but for' test
• R v Kimsey


  Legal causation: more than a slight or trifling link
• R v Hughes


  Legal causation: more than minimal