Key term
OCR A-Level Law H418
Civil Courts and Other Forms of Dispute Resolution
Criminal Courts and Lay People
Legal Personnel
Access to Justice
Rules and Theory of Criminal Law
General Elements of Criminal Liability
Fatal Offences Against the Person
Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person
Offences Against Property
Mental Capacity Defences
Preliminary Offences
Evaluation in Criminal Law
Parliamentary Law Making
Delegated Legislation
Statutory Interpretation
Judicial Precedent
European Union Law
Rules and Theory of Tort
Liability in Negligence
Occupiers’ Liability
Torts Connected to Land
Vicarious Liability
Defences
Remedies in Tort
Evaluation in Tort
Introduction to the Nature of Law
Law and Society
Rules and Theory of Human RightsHuman rights
Protection of the Individual’s Human Rights and Freedoms in the UKHuman rights
Key Provisions of the European Convention on Human RightsHuman rights
Human Rights and English LawHuman rights
Enforcement of Human Rights LawHuman rights
Evaluation in Human RightsHuman rights
Rules and Theory of ContractContract
FormationContract
Vitiating FactorsContract
Remedies in ContractContract
Evaluation in ContractContract
Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person
- 4 subtopics
- 9 things to know
- Component 1
What Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person covers
The ladder of assault offences from common assault to wounding with intent, and the defences available.
Where it is assessed
Component 1
Criminal law, Section B of the first paper.
Check the OCR specification ↗The 4 subtopics
Each one has its own page.
- Common assault and the offence of assaultRecall questions on common assault as two offences, the actus reus of assault, including apprehension of immediate unlawful force, words, silence and conditional threats, and the intention or subjective recklessness required for its mens rea.Open →
- Battery and section 39Recall questions on charging assault and battery under section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988, the application of unlawful force, battery by an indirect act, a continuing act or an omission, and the mens rea of battery.Open →
- Actual bodily harm, wounding and grievous bodily harmRecall questions on sections 47, 20 and 18, on what counts as a wound, and on the different mens rea each requires.Open →
- Defences and evaluating non-fatal offencesRecall questions on consent and its exceptions, voluntary and involuntary intoxication and self-defence as defences to non-fatal offences, and on criticisms of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, the Law Commission's reform proposals and the inconsistency of the defences.Open →
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
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How can words create or negate an assault?
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How can voluntary and involuntary intoxication affect liability for a non-fatal offence?
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How can battery be committed indirectly or by omission?
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Why do mere emotions not amount to actual bodily harm, when psychiatric injury can?
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Does the defendant need to intend or foresee actual bodily harm to be guilty under section 47?
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Is consent a valid defence to assault and battery?
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Can voluntary intoxication provide a defence to a basic intent non-fatal offence such as battery?
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How does voluntary intoxication affect liability for specific intent non-fatal offences?
Take Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person further
The same content, four other ways.
Commonly confused
Pairs that lose marks when they are blurred together.
Assault vs Battery
Assault: causing the victim to apprehend immediate unlawful force. Battery: the application of unlawful force to the victim.
Actual bodily harm vs Grievous bodily harm
Actual bodily harm: harm interfering with the health or comfort of the victim more than trivially. Grievous bodily harm: really serious harm.
Section 20 offence vs Section 18 offence
Section 20 offence: inflicting serious harm with intent or recklessness as to some harm. Section 18 offence: causing serious harm with intent to cause serious harm.
Questions from this topic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
What are the two distinct offences that together comprise common assault?
Model answer
Assault and battery.
- 2
How is the offence of assault defined in law?
Model answer
An act which causes the victim to apprehend immediate unlawful personal violence.
- 3
What type of conduct by the defendant is required for the actus reus of assault?
Model answer
An act by the defendant (as opposed to a mere omission in most cases).
- 4
What mental state must the victim experience for the actus reus of assault to be satisfied?
Model answer
The victim must apprehend (anticipate or fear) the application of unlawful force.
- 5
Why is 'immediacy' an essential element of the actus reus of assault?
Model answer
The victim must apprehend that unlawful force will be applied immediately; a threat of future violence is insufficient.
- 6
What does 'unlawfulness' mean in the context of the actus reus of assault?
Model answer
The threatened force must not be legally justified or excused (e.g. not covered by consent or self-defence).
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Six ways to work the same material.
Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person revision questions
- What does Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person cover in OCR A-Level Law?
- 4 subtopics: common assault and the offence of assault, battery and section 39, actual bodily harm, wounding and grievous bodily harm and defences and evaluating non-fatal offences. Each one has its own page with questions and model answers.
- How is Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person organised?
- By the OCR H418 specification, subtopic by subtopic, so it matches the order you are taught it in.
Every question in Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person, on a schedule.
Attempt a question from memory, write the correct version, then attempt it again. Levo records the jump between your first attempt and your last, and brings each question back on the day you are due to forget it.
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