Law Information - Assaults / Violence Offences - NT
Acts intended to cause serious harm or prevent apprehension
Date: 01/09/2009
The Law - Any person who, with intent to disfigure or disable any person, or to cause serious harm to any person, or to resist or prevent the lawful arrest or detention of any person:
- causes harm to any person by any means;
- attempts in any manner to strike any person with any kind of projectile
- causes any explosive substance to explode;
- ends or delivers any explosive substance or other dangerous or noxious thing to any person
- causes any such substance or thing to be taken or received by any person;
- puts any corrosive fluid or any destructive or explosive substance in any place; or
- casts or throws any such fluid or substance at or upon any person or otherwise applies any such fluid or substance to the person of any person, guilty of a crime and is liable to imprisonment for life.
Maximum Penalty - Acts intended to cause serious harm or prevent apprehension
Penalty: Imprisonment for life
What the prosecution must prove - Acts intended to cause serious harm or prevent apprehension
To be advised.
Possible Defences - Acts intended to cause serious harm or prevent apprehension
To be advised.
The Court process - Acts intended to cause serious harm or prevent apprehension
To be advised.
