Assault

• Assault - AR - requires some act or words

  Ireland

  ->Silent phone calls

  Contanza

  ->Letters

  Logdon

  ->Gestures

  Can meet the AR
• Assault - AR - ‘immediate’

  Smith v Woking

  -> ‘immediate’ means ‘imminent’ not ‘instantaneous’

  -> an assault can be through a closed window
• Assault - AR - Tuberville v Savage


  Words can negate an assault
• Assault - MR 


  intention or recklessness as to whether the V apprehends the infliction of immediate unlawful force