battery

• Collins v Wilcock


  Slightest touch can amount to a battery
• Wood v DPP


  Police officers making contact without an arrest is a battery
• R v Thomas


  Touching clothes counts as battery
• Fagan v MPC


  A continuing act can be a battery
• DPP v K


  Indirect acts can be a battery
• DPP v Santana-Bermudez


  Battery can be committed by an omission
• DPP v Majewski


  Battery requires intention or recklessness
• Actus reus of a battery

  Application of unlawful force
• Mens rea of a battery


  Intentionally or recklessly applying unlawful force to V
• 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