These notes helped me to achieve a first class on my criminal law exam. Includes cases and statutes. Everything you need to be able to answer a problem question on offences against the person.
OAPA
Assault: Any conduct by which D, intentionally or recklessly causes V to apprehend immediate and
unlawful personal force to the body. R v Ireland [1988]
o Actus reus: D must do an act that causes another person to apprehend the application of
immediate unlawful personal force. No violence need flow from this causing of
apprehension.
o Mens rea: intention to create the apprehension of immediate unlawful force to the body of
another or being subjective reckless as to the creation of that apprehension. R v Savage, R v
Parmenter [1992].
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