Over the past several weeks I have particularly been struggling with informal practice sessions. I was frustrated because initially I was not able to understand why I found the self-guided‚ informal practical gatherings with other students challenging. I felt reasonably confident with the content and with my anatomy‚ yet when it came to taking what I had learnt in the practical sessions and applying them informally‚ particularly palpations and accessory movement tests I felt lost. I found it difficult
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According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary‚ “learning is the activity or process of gaining knowledge or skill by studying‚ practicing‚ being taught‚ or experiencing something.” Referring to the textbook‚ Life-Span Human Development‚ 7th edition‚ by Carol Sigelman‚ on page 244‚ “memory is our ability to store and later retrieve information about past events‚ develops and changes over the life span.” In this essay‚ I will be discussing how learning styles are implemented into our memory to help us
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Non-Fatal Offences Criticisms Essay The majority of non-fatal offences are included in the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (OAPA) which was described by Professor JC Smith as ‘a rag bag of offences brought together from a variety of sources’. This view is widely shared throughout the legal system‚ although some argue that the law works in practise and so no reform is needed. However the law does not include the common offences of Assault and Battery‚ providing another call for reform.
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help to modernise and possibly get us to stop referencing cases that are over 300 years old - Tuberville v Savage (it’s fairly unlikely that anyone will have a sword drawn on them in the current age). The offence of s47‚ assault occasioning actual bodily harm would be replaced with the offence of intentionally or recklessly causing injury to another‚ it also stated that the prosecution no longer needed to prove the injury was caused by the assault or battery‚ simply that it was caused by the defendant
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assault occasioning in actual bodily harm”. Miller defines this as “any hurt or injury calculated to interfere with the health or comfort of the v”‚ in which the falling down would cause Ken to experience some discomfort with falling to the ground. However this fall resulted in Ken breaking his hip. This is a GBH S20 as this break would have caused him to go to hospital. The AR of GBH S20 is “causing wound or GBH”. There isn’t a wound and therefore there is only grievous bodily harm. The case of Smith
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Jonas ’s attacker could be charged with a number of non fatal offences ranging from the lowest non fatal offences which are common assault and battery under the Criminal Justice Act 1988‚ to the higher offences assault causing actual bodily harm and grievous bodily harm under the Offence Against the Person Act (1861). In order for the attacker to be charged within the criminal courts‚ the prosecution must prove the crime is ’beyond reasonable doubt ’ (Charman‚ 2010: 211). The jury must be certain
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ASSAULT Assault is fear or apprehension of immediate/unlawful contact (Darby) Battery is the actual application of force without consent‚ lawful excuse or justification At common law‚ an assault is any act committed intentionally or recklessly‚ that causes another person to apprehend immediate or unlawful violence. If force is actually applied‚ directly or indirectly‚ and unlawfully‚ without the consent of the person assaulted‚ the assault becomes a battery‚ however slight the force (Fagan) Both
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those versed in law will know it as ‘causing the victim to apprehend immediate unlawful violence’ to the lay person implies a level of physicality to the act where this would refer a ‘common assault’ or actual bodily harm involving either an assault or battery along with more actual bodily harm. Reform of these issues was proposed by the law commission in regard to replacing the terms used within each offence so that they were clearly defined in statute and no longer relying on case law‚ with new
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Thirteen year-old Tom had recently been playing football and kicked his ball over a fence into his neighbour’s garden. Tom’s neighbour was a cantankerous 70 year-old called Stan who confiscated the ball when he saw it land on his pristine lawn. As a result of this incident Tom decided to play a practical joke on Stan by posting letters through Stan’s letterbox each day on his way to school. Inside the letters were the words: ‘You’ll pay for what you have done old man.’ As a result of receiving these
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the ground. Actual Bodily Harm (ABH) under S.47 The offence of actual bodily harm is set out in S.47 Offences Against the Person Act 1861. This provides that it is an offence to commit an assault occasioning actual bodily harm. Whilst the statute only refers to assault‚ the offence may also be committed by a battery. In fact it is far more common for offences under s.47 to be committed by battery rather than by an assault. Actual bodily harm is a triable-either-way offence.
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