Assault

Cards (8)

  • S39 Criminal Justice Act 1988. 
  • Intention (Mohan)
  • Intentionally or recklessly causing someone to apprehend immediate unlawful violence. 
  • D was subjectively reckless to putting the victim in fear of immediate unlawful violence (Cunningham)  
  • Can be through words (Constanza)
  • silence (Ireland)
  • Immediate meaning V does not know what defendent will do next (Smith)
  • no immediate threat= no assault (Tubervile)