Common assault is an offence in English law. It is committed by a person who causes another person to apprehend the immediate use of unlawful violence...

the common law definition is the same in criminal and tort law. Traditionally, common law legal systems have separate definitions for assault and battery...

Indecent assault is an offence of aggravated assault in some common law-based jurisdictions. It is characterised as a sex crime and has significant overlap...

and Local Government. In January 2025, Amesbury pleaded guilty to common assault and was sentenced to ten weeks in prison. On appeal, his prison sentence...

to aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault and common assault. On 21 October 2019, Musgrove was found guilty of assault with an act of indecency...

guilty of it is liable to imprisonment for three years. The common law offence of assault occasioning actual bodily harm was abolished, and section 47...

Brewster and Sheffield United teammate Oli McBurnie were charged with common assault by Nottinghamshire Police "in relation to disorder at the conclusion...

harass, stalking or intimidating and common assault at Manly Local Court. Slater also had two counts of common assault and one count of attempting to stalk...

heard he would plead guilty to one count of common assault – with police agreeing to drop counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm and stalking...

charged would be indefensible serious assault occasioning ABH rather than (implicitly defensible) common assault and erroneously asserted that any injuries...

2006. Newton was charged with four offences including common assault, intimidation and assault occasioning actual bodily harm against Satchwell. Three...

this act, the marginal notes to this section read "assault occasioning bodily harm" and "common assault". This section was repealed in the Republic of Ireland...

building arms, grip strength and core power.[full citation needed] Common assault course obstacles include barbed wire or nets to crawl under, pipes or...

about the requirements for both the tort of assault and the common law criminal offence of common assault. It involved plaintiff Tuberville versus defendant...

Philpott had punched another driver, for which he had pleaded guilty to common assault, but denied dangerous driving. At the hearing, Philpott was bailed and...

abuse by a family member is a form of incest. It is more common than other forms of sexual assault on a child and can result in more serious and long-term...

cautioned by the Hertfordshire Police following their investigation into common assault. In 2008, a sex tape of Jackson and adult video star Sky Lopez was offered...

ultimately charged with racially aggravated harassment, common assault and two counts of assault by beating. She appeared at magistrates' court on 14 April...

racially or religiously aggravated common assault. A person is guilty of this offence if he commits a common assault which is racially or religiously aggravated...

the Heythrop Hunt at Lower Swell, Ferry was arrested on suspicion of common assault and robbery. It was alleged that he had taken a video camera from two...

contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating reasonable fear or apprehension of such contact. Battery is a specific common law offense, although...

Winehouse was arrested for a third time on charges of common assault and public order offence after assaulting the front-of-house manager of the Milton Keynes...

Non-fatal non-sexual offences Assault, or common assault Battery, or common battery Wounding or wounding with intent Poisoning Assault occasioning actual bodily...

of Common Assault is committed when a person either assaults another person or commits a battery." It notes that the only distinction between common assault...

their vehicles collided with each other. Paulo was later charged with common assault, recklessly damaging property and menacing driving. Paulo will plead...

In common law, assault is the tort of acting intentionally, that is with either general or specific intent, causing the reasonable apprehension of an...

and therefore only potentially chargeable as the lesser offence of common assault, the sentence for which is given by Section 39 of the Criminal Justice...

Party. On 7 November 2024, Amesbury was charged with common assault. He pleaded guilty to assault and subsequently resigned from the Labour Party. On 24...

counts of assault occasioning actual bodily harm, stalk/intimidate intend fear physical etc harm (domestic), and three counts of common assault (DV). Sutherland...

danger, but the Divisional Court held that this could constitute a common assault. Albeit accidentally, the driver had caused the car to rest on the foot...