This ‘Examination focus’ is relevant to AQA A-level Paper 1, OCR A-level Component 1, WJEC A-level Units 3 and 4, and Eduqas Components 2 and 3.
One of the trickiest topics in scenario/problem questions is that of non-fatal offences against the person. The range of injuries that could be used as the basis of the question, the lack of statutory definitions, the nineteenth-centurystatutory provisions, and the multiple rulings on the interpretation of the law by judges have all complicated the issue. The main Act of Parliament, the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (OAPA), was a consolidating Act of offences from earlier pieces of legislation. These offences were not rewritten but were simply brought together into a single Act. For our purpose, there are five key offences (Table 1):
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