Chapter 7 Multiple Choice Questions

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Causing V to apprehend immediate and unlawful force is required for an assault correct incorrect

Causing V to apprehend immediate and unlawful violence is required for an assault correct incorrect

Causing V to fear immediate and unlawful violence is required for an assault correct incorrect

Causing V to fear immediate and unlawful violence may amount to an assault correct incorrect

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?

No physical harm is required for an assault correct incorrect

Words may amount to an assault correct incorrect

Words may negate an assault correct incorrect

Silence may not amount to an assault correct incorrect

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Which of the following does NOT amount to actual bodily harm?

Fear, distress, or panic correct incorrect

Any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with health or comfort correct incorrect

Psychiatric injury correct incorrect

Temporary loss of sensory function correct incorrect

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What is the mens rea of assault occasioning actual bodily harm contrary to s.47, Offences Against the Person Act 1861?

Intention or recklessness as to causing some harm correct incorrect

The mens rea of an assault or battery correct incorrect

Intention or recklessness as to causing ABH correct incorrect

Intention to cause ABH correct incorrect

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What will NOT constitute the actus reus of unlawfully and maliciously wounding or inflicting GBH under s.20, Offences Against the Person Act 1861?

A break in the continuity of the skin correct incorrect

Really serious harm correct incorrect

Serious psychiatric injury correct incorrect

Internal rupture of blood vessels correct incorrect

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Which of the following is a CORRECT representation of the mens rea of an offence under s.20, Offences Against the Person Act 1861?

Recklessness as to causing GBH correct incorrect

Intention or recklessness as to causing some harm correct incorrect

Intention or recklessness as to causing GBH correct incorrect

Intention to cause some harm correct incorrect

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?

The mens rea of a s.18 offence may be proved by intention to cause GBH correct incorrect

The mens rea of a s.18 offence may be proved by intention to resist arrest correct incorrect

The mens rea of a s.18 offence may be proved by recklessness as to causing GBH correct incorrect

The mens rea of a s.18 offence may be proved by intention to prevent the lawful apprehension or detention of a person correct incorrect

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?

The infliction of force in battery requires direct bodily contact correct incorrect

Only the least touching of another is required for a battery correct incorrect

No harm is necessary for a battery correct incorrect

Consent is a defence to battery correct incorrect

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Which of the following represents the mens rea of administering a noxious thing under s.24, Offences Against the Person Act 1861?

Intentionally or recklessly administering a noxious thing correct incorrect

Maliciously administering a noxious thing correct incorrect

Intention to injure, aggrieve, or annoy correct incorrect

Intentionally or recklessly administering a noxious thing and intention to injure, aggrieve, or annoy correct incorrect

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Which of the following statements is FALSE?

Consent is a defence to assault and battery correct incorrect

Consent may be a defence to ABH and GBH correct incorrect

Consent is never a defence to ABH and GBH correct incorrect

There are exceptions to the rule that consent is no defence to harm correct incorrect