s47

• s47 Offences against the person act 1861
• a person can serve up to 5 years for s47
• actus reus of s47: any assault or battery occasioning actual bodily harm
• R v Roberts: Occasioning means to cause
• actual bodily harm: R v Miller -‘any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health and comfort of the victim’
• Chan Fook “harm should not be so trivial as to be wholly insignificant” , can be psychiatric injury
• mens rea of s47: mens rea of assault or battery