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n. (''UK Law'') Serious physical injury, or the fact of causing such injury.
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Grievous Bodily Harm is a 1988 Australian crime film directed by Mark Joffe starring Colin Friels and John Waters.
Bodily Harm may refer to:
- Grievous bodily harm, a legal term of art used in the definition of both statutory and common law offences in England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions
- Grievous Bodily Harm, a 1988 Australian crime film directed by Mark Joffe
Usage examples of "grievous bodily harm".
An entire chapter of a fraternal organization was charged with drunk and disorderly conduct as well as causing grievous bodily harm during a fracas in one of the uptown restaurants.
If then, he throws down a heavy beam into the street, he does an act [56] which a person of ordinary prudence would foresee is likely to cause death, or grievous bodily harm, and he is dealt with as if he foresaw it, whether he does so in fact or not.
First he detailed each of the charges, beginning with the most serious: three counts of attempted murder, two of assault with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm, one of armed robbery.
I doubt much short of pox, plague, or grievous bodily harm would answer as an excuse, though.
I'm not laying any charges of assault or grievous bodily harm, or anything like that.
It's the intent to do grievous bodily harm part that weakens their case.