Actual Bodily Harm (ABH): Obtaining insurance

Actual Bodily Harm or ABH is a charge relating to a serious violent assault.
 

Title: Offences against the person

Offence: Assault occasioning Actual Bodily Harm

Legislation: Offences Against the Person Act 1861 section 47

Mode of Trial: Either way

Statutory Limitations & Maximum Penalty: 5 years imprisonment

Sentencing Range: Specified violent offence

 

Use of a weapon, feet, or head-butting Nature and number of blows. Lasting/serious injury or minor injury. More than one offender or victim. Whether unprovoked violence, excessive self-defence etc. Victim vulnerable or serving the public. Volatile location such as night club.
 

The Crown Prosecution Service has said that, by way of example, it considers the following injuries to be ABH and to be sufficiently serious that they could not be adequately reflected by a charge of common assault:

The loss or breaking of a tooth or teeth 

Temporary loss of sensory function, including loss of consciousness 

Extensive or multiple bruising 

A displaced broken nose 

Minor fractures of bones 

Minor (but not superficial) cuts requiring medical treatment 

A recognised psychiatric disorder

 

 

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