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- R v Savage; R v Parmenter [1991] 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. Both sections of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (sections 20 versus section 47) only require damage to have resulted from a violent or otherwise malicious act of the defendant. An appellate court may use its statutory power under a 1968 Act to substitute a charge with an appropriate lesser charge. The latter offence, equally a misdemeanour was held to apply to a precise fact pattern which included pouring one's large glass of drink over someone with the glass slipping and cutting a wrist; and to another which included three month's of rough-handling child cruelty. (en)
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- [1991] UKHL 15, [1992] AC 699, [1992] 4 All ER 698, [1991] 94 Cr App Rep 193, [1991] 94 Cr App R 193, [1992] 1 AC 699 (en)
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- The Crown and Susan Savage; joined appeal in law of The Crown and Philip Mark Parmenter (en)
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- Assault (en)
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- Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (en)
- accidental aggravation (en)
- grievous bodily harm (en)
- oblique intention (en)
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- R v Savage; R v Parmenter (en)
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- Section 3 Criminal Appeals Act 1968 applied. (en)
- Lord Ackner, per curiam. On the proven facts of the case, found by the jury, and their having established the relevant malicious act, the severe misdemenour of wounding with its consequent starting point of sentencing scale was improper, the correct legal classification of the offence was the misdemenour of assault occasioning actual bodily harm with its lower starting point for sentencing: a verdict of guilty of assault occasioning actual bodily harm is a permissible alternative verdict on a count alleging unlawful wounding contrary to section 20 of the Offences Against the Persons Act 1861. (en)
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- Conviction in Crown Court for battery with liquid and for malicious wounding under section 18. (en)
- Court of Appeal replaced latter conviction with assault occasioning actual bodily harm under section 47. (en)
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- R v Savage; R v Parmenter [1991] 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. Both sections of the Offences against the Person Act 1861 (sections 20 versus section 47) only require damage to have resulted from a violent or otherwise malicious act of the defendant. An appellate court may use its statutory power under a 1968 Act to substitute a charge with an appropriate lesser charge. (en)
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