General Reading
Ashworth, Ch 8 (S & H, Ch. 13)
****Offences Against the Person Act (as amended by CLA, 1967) ss. 18, 20, 47
Criminal Justice Act, 1988, s.39
****Police Act, 1964, s. 51.
C L R C 14th Report, Offences Against the Person (Cmnd 7844), ***pp 68-87; *pp119-124.
****Law Commission 143, Draft Criminal Code, Cls. 74 - 81(pp 206-207) and pp 154-156
1980 Crim L R **** 331 - 335; *542 - 555
**1988 Crim L R 600-603
*(1963) 79 L Q R 247
**sections1-7,14,and15 Offences Against the Person Bill, Home Office,1998 and related commentary (http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk)
[1999 Crim LR 689 -701 article surveying empirical research into the application of ss 47,20 and 18 OAPA 1861]
I ASSAULT AND BATTERY
(1) Mens Rea
****Venna [1976] QB 421
*Spratt [1990] Crim L R 797
**Parmenter [1991] Crim L R 21; (1991) 92 Cr App Rep 68 & 168****
**Savage [1990] Crim L R 709; [1992] Crim L R 288 (HL)
Nash [1991] Crim L R 768
(2) Actus reus
Tuberville v Savage [1669] 1 Mod Rep 3; 86 ER 684
*Fagan [1969] 1 QB 439
Logdon [1976] CLY 404
*Smith v Woking Police [1983] Crim L R 323
**DPP v Little [1991] Crim L R 900
(3) Consent as a Defence***
Coney (1882) 22 QBD 534
***Clarence (1888) 22 QBD 23
**Donovan [1934] 2 KB 498
**A.G.'s Ref (No 6 of 1980) [1981] Crim L R 553
Jones [1987] Crim LR123
Boyea [1992] Crim L R 574
****Brown & Ors [1993] Crim L R 583; Article 1994 Crim L R 661
*Simon Slingsby [1995] Crim L R 570
Articles 1996 Crim L R **73 and *684
**Wilson [1996] Crim L R 573
*Richardson [1999] 2 Cr App Rep 200; [1999] Crim L R 62]
***Emmett 18th June 1999 (Lexis)
(4) Mistake of Fact as a "Defence"
****Williams [1984] Crim L R 163; (1984) 78 Cr App Rep 276
***Beckford [1988] AC 130
(5) Lawful Correction as a Defence
Taylor [1984] CLY 502/3
A v UK 1998 3 FCR 597; 1998 2FLR 059
II COMMON ASSAULT Criminal Justice Act, 1988, s.39
**DPP v Armstrong-Braun [1999] Crim LR416
III AGGRAVATED ASSAULT Assault Occasioning Actual Bodily Harm, OAPA, 1861, s. 47
****Roberts (1971) 56 Cr App Rep 95; [1972] Crim L R 27
*Miller [1954] 2 QB 282, 292
Reigate JJ. ex p. Counsell [1984] CLY 505; (1983) 148 JP 193
*Chan-Fook [1994] Crim L R 432; Article (1995) 111 LQR 27 - 32
Owino [1996] 2 Cr App Rep 128
****Burstow & Ireland [1998] AC 147;[1996] Crim L R 331
IV WOUNDING AND GRIEVOUS BODILY HARM OAPA, 1861, SS. 20, 18
****Clarence (1888) 22 QBD 23, 36, 37-38, 42-43, 46-50
****Mowatt [1968] 1 QB 421
*Sullivan [1981] Crim L R 46
*Wilson [1984] Crim L R 36
*W v Dolbey [1983] Crim L R 681
**Grimshaw [1984] Crim L R 108
*Field [1993] Crim L R 456
*Beeson [1994] Crim L R 190
Richardson; Irwin [1999] Crim LR 494
IV ADMINISTERING POISON
Cato [1976] 1 All E R 260
McShane [1977] Crim L R 737
****Cunningham [1957] 2 QB 396
ESSAYS
Consider the definitional ingredients of the crimes established in sections 18, 20 and 47 of the Offences Against the Person Act, 1861, as amended.
Under what circumstances will (i) a mistake of fact or (ii) consent constitute an answer to a charge of or involving assault ? Is the law coherent?