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  2. Non-fatal offences against the person in English law - Wikipedia

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    On an indictment under section 18, the jury is open to convict under section 20 or section 47 if properly directed. [40] "Wounding" and "causing grievous bodily harm" are defined in the same way as they are in the crime of maliciously wounding or inflicting grievous bodily harm.

  3. Offences Against the Person Act 1861 - Wikipedia

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    Section 11 – Administering poison or wounding or causing grievous bodily harm with intent to murder. This section replaced section 2 of the Offences against the Person Act 1837 (7 Will. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 85). Section 12 – Destroying or damaging a building with gunpowder with intent to murder

  4. Offence against the person - Wikipedia

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    an offence of making such a threat as is mentioned in subsection (3)(a) of section 1 of the Internationally Protected Persons Act 1978 and any of the following offences against a protected person within the meaning of that section, namely an offence of kidnapping, an offence of false imprisonment and an offence under section 2 of the Explosive ...

  5. Assault - Wikipedia

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    Causing grievous bodily harm with intent Also referred to as "wounding with intent". This offence is created by section 18 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100). Other aggravated assault charges refer to assaults carried out against a specific target or with a specific intent: Assault with intent to rob

  6. R v Savage - Wikipedia

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    R v Savage; R v Parmenter [1991] [1] were conjoined final domestic appeals in English criminal law confirming that the mens rea (level and type of guilty intent) of malicious wounding or the heavily twinned statutory offence of inflicting grievous bodily harm will in all but very exceptional cases include that for the lesser offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm.

  7. Life imprisonment in England and Wales - Wikipedia

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    Section 16 (threats to kill); Section 18 (wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm); Section 20 (malicious wounding); Section 21 (attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle in order to commit or assist in committing an indictable offence); Section 22 (using chloroform etc to commit or assist in the committing of any indictable offence);

  8. South Korea orders airline safety probe after worst domestic ...

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    The aviation insurance industry could be looking at a claim for about $15-$20 million under the airline hull insurance policy, and total passenger liability claims of $120-$180 million due to the ...

  9. Offences Against the Person Act 1837 - Wikipedia

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    Section 11 of the act was repealed by section 10 of the Criminal Procedure Act 1851 (14 & 15 Vict. c. 100). [25] The act was wholly replaced by the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict. c. 100). The whole act was repealed on 1 November 1861 by section 1 of, and the schedule to, the Criminal Statutes Repeal Act 1861 (24 & 25 Vict ...