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[Eurocopter]

Are their different forms of assault? My local paper mentioned assault to severe injury and permanent disfigurement and wanted any info on this one and if there are any others. I know the definition of assault and self defence and thats about all. [/font][font="Trebuchet MS"]

Cheers

Edited by David, 12 September 2010 - 07:49 PM.
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[CmdKeen]

There is a single common law offence of assault that can be aggravated by many factors one of which is the level of injury. I seem to recall you having a beat officer's companion, it is explained in more detail in the section on assault in there. The libelling statement allows for a bit of context, it enables you to quickly what level of assault is being talked about.

There are also of course statutory assault offences, the most obvious being police assault and assulting a member of the emergency services.

[Nelson]

There's various versions of it, but it all comes under the umbrella of assault. Some examples -

Minor assault - slapping someone, no injury caused
assault to injury - punching someone, causing a split lip or eyebrow or something
Serious assault - assualting someone which results in rendering the victim unconscious or breaking a bone or something
assault to serious injury and permanent disfigurement - slashing someone across the face with a knife, causing a lasting scar
assault to serious injury, permanent disfigurement and endangerment of life - as above, but if the person might have died

After that, you're into the culpable homicides, and attempted murders...

[En Garde]

Mmm well.

Assault and battery (AKA common assault) – Assault with contact but no injury caused.

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (AKA ABH) – assault with contact which causes some injury, anything from slight reddening to an arm to a black eye.

Causing grievous bodily harm – serious injury requiring a level of treatment for a period of time, such as broken bones or lacerations.

Then you have GBH with intent, attempted murder, murder ect.

EDIT - Sorry I only just noticed this was in the Scottish section.

Edited by En Garde, 13 September 2010 - 12:33 AM.

[Eurocopter]

My beat officers companion does not mention any reference of minor assault, assault to injury, serious assault etc. It just gives the definition of assault and other stuff, such as assault by menaces, indecent assault, aggrevated assault, justifiable assault and police assault. Initily i thought the newspaper were using some rather unusual adjectives for the assault, but after a while i thought it sounded like legal talk because the guys wrist was fractured and he had a lengthy cut down his leg, which to me was severe.

Thanks Nelson, much obliged!

[Sam Vimes]

You can be assaulted by the DASH Risk Assessment, an RTC Book, Sudden Death Forms, and the C3 pad is reknown for reacting violently to pointed comments.

All forms to keep an eye on.