Case link: Assault – racial aggravation – Babbs [2007] EWCA Crim 2737

“Counsel on behalf of the appellant submitted at the end of the prosecution case that, even on the prosecution’s evidence, the count charged was not made out because the words used had not been spoken immediately before the incident of assault so as to justify the conclusion that the racially aggravated form of the offence [...]

Lecture presentation: Non fatal offences

This recorded lecture presentation deals with assault, battery and offences contrary to section 47, section 20 and section 18 of the Offences Against the Person Act. Sexual offences and offences of poisoning are not included.
Topics covered include assault by words; assault by silence; conditional statements; the immediacy requirement; battery by omission; battery and psychiatric injury; [...]