Bodily

Question 1

What can bodily include?

Answer 1

Can include skin, flesh etc but also psychiatric and nervous system

Psychaitric injury must be a recognised psychiatric illness

Question 2

Can minor injuries amount to bodily harm?

Answer 2

Courts have also held that relatively minor injuries may still amount to bodily harm, for example temporary loss of consciousness, as seen in T v DPP, and cutting a person’s hair, which was held to be sufficient in DPP v Smith.