Serious Assaults - elements

Question 1

WOUNDING WITH INTENT (to cause GBH)

Answer 1

Crimes Act 1961, Section 188(1)

• With intent to cause grievous bodily harm
• To any person
• Wounds OR maims OR disfigures OR causes grievous bodily harm
• To any person

Question 2

WOUNDING WITH INTENT (to injure)

Answer 2

Crimes Act 1961, Section 188(2)

• With intent to injure any person OR with reckless disregard for the safety of others
• Wounds OR maims OR disfigures OR causes grievous bodily harm
• To any person

Question 3

INJURING WITH INTENT (to cause GBH)

Answer 3

Crimes Act 1961, Section 189(1)

• With intent to cause grievous bodily harm
• To any person
• Injures
• Any person

Question 4

INJURING WITH INTENT (to injure)

Answer 4

Crimes Act 1961, Section 189(2)

• With intent to injure any person OR with reckless disregard for the safety of others
• Injures
• Any person

Question 5

AGGRAVATED WOUNDING

Answer 5

Crimes Act 1961, Section 191(1)

• With intent:
  a) To commit or facilitate the commission of any imprisonable offence; OR
  b) To avoid the detection of himself or of any other person in the commission of any imprisonable offence; OR
  c) To avoid the arrest or facilitate the flight of himself or of any other person upon the commission or attempted commission of any imprisonable offence
• wounds, OR maims OR disfigures OR causes grievous bodily harm to any person, OR stupefies OR renders unconscious any person, OR by any violent means renders any person incapable of resistance