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Number of recorded crimes (2009–10). Categories approximate non-fatal offences against the person. Common to all crimes against the person is the infringement of the right to bodily integrity. It extends to the touching of clothing, for example, and where no physical harm actually results.
In criminal law, the term offence against the person or crime against the person usually refers to a crime which is committed by direct physical harm or force being applied to another person. They are usually analysed by division into the following categories: Fatal offences; Sexual offences; Non-fatal non-sexual offences
This section was repealed in the Republic of Ireland by section 31 of, and the Schedule to, the Non-Fatal Offences against the Person Act 1997. "Divine service" See Matthews v King [1934] 1 KB 505, 50 TLR 62, 30 Cox 27 "Misdemeanor" See the Criminal Law Act 1967 and the Criminal Law Act (Northern Ireland) 1967. Proposal for repeal
Such a state of mind is required in most non–fatal offenses, such as common assault (see section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988) The assault element of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, contrary to section 47 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861; inflicting grievous bodily harm, contrary to section 20 of that Act.
The typical case will be of a non-fatal offence against the person that causes death. [48] There must be a criminal act, rather than an omission, following R v Lowe. [c 11] Although acts and omissions may be equally culpable, the extension to omissions – where there is no need to show intent – would have made illegal a huge class of persons.
In my view, it should be "non-fatal non-sexual" rather than just "non-fatal" for clarity. Certain sexual offences were characterised as offences against the person by the Offences against the Person Act 1861, and this is still the case with the Visiting Forces Act 1952. James500 14:00, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
In properly regulated sport, there is a legal right to cause incidental injury. This is a criminal law version of the civil law principle volenti non fit injuria (Latin for consent does not make an [actionable] injury) and the victim consents to run the risk (not the certainty) of injury arising within the rules of the game being played. This ...
In English law, the defence of necessity recognises that there may be situations of such overwhelming urgency that a person must be allowed to respond by breaking the law. There have been very few cases in which the defence of necessity has succeeded, and in general terms there are very few situations where such a defence could even be applicable.