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Chapter 8 Multiple choice questions
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D raises a fist and thrusts it silently towards V, a blind man. Which of the following describes D's offence?
An attempted assault because he has not actually inflicted unlawful personal violence on V.
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Neither assault nor battery because he has not harmed V.
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Neither assault nor battery because V did not apprehend immediate unlawful violence.
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An assault because although he has not caused V to apprehend immediate unlawful violence, he intended to do so.
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D shouts a violent threat at V from a moving car. Which of the following represents the law:
D has not assaulted V because he has not struck him.
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D has not assaulted V because the threat cannot be immediately carried out.
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D has assaulted V because he has threatened imminent harm.
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D has assaulted V because V will fear violence at some point in the future.
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D, a stalker, telephones V and threatens that he will be at her door in an hour. V suffers psychological harm:
D has assaulted V, because the need for immediate fear is irrelevant.
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D has assaulted V, because V fears the possibility of immediate violence.
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D has not assaulted V psychically because there is too great a delay between the telephone call and threatened harm.
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D has not assaulted V because she has not been physically harmed.
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As a joke, D approaches V from behind and says, "Your money or your life!" Which of the following represents the law:
D has not assaulted V because he did not intend V to apprehend immediate violence.
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D has not assaulted V because he did not foresee that V would apprehend immediate violence.
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D has assaulted V because he intentionally threatened or at least foresaw that V might apprehend immediate violence.
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D has assaulted V because a reasonable person would have foreseen that V would apprehend immediate violence.
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D punches a woman who is holding a baby, causing the baby to fall to the ground and suffer minor harm. D will be guilty of:
No battery because D did not use a weapon.
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An assault on the baby by causing the mother to apprehend violence.
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No offence against the baby because he did not hit it.
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A battery against the baby because force does not need to be directly applied to the victim.
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D cuts off a substantial amount of V's hair. Which of the following represents D's position:
D may be guilty of ABH because hair is an attribute and part of the human body.
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D commits no offence because he has not made physical contact with V's body.
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D has abused V.
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D has committed no assault because hair is dead tissue and therefore cannot be the subject of an offence relating to bodily harm.
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In the course of giving V a lift in his car, D pulls off V's coat against her wishes. She jumps from the car and breaks an ankle. Which of the following represents the law:
D commits no offence because V's injury is self-inflicted.
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D commits ABH because he assaults/batters V. Her escape from danger is reasonable and a natural consequence of D's assault. Therefore he is the cause of V's harm.
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D commits no offence because he did not intend or foresee ABH.
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D commits no offence of ABH because he did not commit an assault or battery.
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Psychiatric illness cannot amount to 'bodily harm' in respect of which of the following offences:
Assault
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Battery
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S47 OAPA 1861
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S20 OAPA 1861
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Injuries contrary to s47/s20/s18 OAPA 1861 can never be consented to in which of the following:
Rough, undisciplined horseplay
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Pain deliberately inflicted for sexual gratification
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Reasonable surgical interference
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Sport
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The significance of Dica [2004] is as follows:
The reckless transmission of HIV/Aids where health status has been concealed amounts to s20 OAPA 1861, and whether or not V consented to disease transmission is a question of fact.
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The intentional transmission of HIV/Aids amounts to s18 OAPA 1861 and cannot be consented to.
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Consent to unprotected sexual intercourse implies consent to all the risks.
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The reckless transmission of HIV/Aids during consensual sexual intercourse where state of health has been concealed amounts to rape.
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