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Offences Against the Person/Violence

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Offences in section order

OAPA 1861 s 4

Solicitation of Murder

OAPA 1861 s 16

Threats to Kill

OAPA 1861 s 18

Grievous Bodily Harm/Wounding, With Intent

OAPA 1861 s 20 · s 20

Grievous Bodily Harm, Unlawful Wounding

OAPA 1861 s 21

Attempting to Choke, Suffocate or Strangle to Commit an Indictable Offence

OAPA 1861 s 22

Using Chloroform etc. to Commit an Indictable Offence

OAPA 1861 s 23, s 24

Administering Poison etc. So as to endanger life

OAPA 1861 s 27

Child Abandonment

OAPA 1861 s 28

Causing Bodily Injury by Explosives

OAPA 1861 s 29

Causing an Explosion or Throwing Corrosive Fluid with Intent to do Grievous Bodily Harm

OAPA 1861 s 30

Placing Explosives Near a Building with Intent to do Bodily Injury

OAPA 1861 s 31

Setting Spring Guns etc. with Intent to Inflict Grievous Bodily Harm

OAPA 1861 s 38

Assault with Intent to Resist Arrest

OAPA 1861 s 47 · s 47

Assault occasioning actual bodily harm, inc Racially/Religiously Aggravated

OAPA 1861 s 57

Bigamy

OAPA 1861 s 58, s 59, s 60

Abortion

OAPA 1861 s 60

Concealing Birth

OAPA 1861 s 64

Making or Possessing Explosives with Intent to Commit an Offence

Common law

False Imprisonment

Common law

Involuntary Manslaughter

Common law

Kidnapping

Common law

Murder

Common law

Voluntary Manslaughter

CJA 1988 s 39 · CDA 1998 s 29

Common Assault, inc Racially/Religiously Aggravated

CDA 1998 s 29, s 32

Racially or religiously Aggravated Offences

Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001 s 42(7), s 42(7A), s 42A(1)

Harassment of a person in their home

Police Reform Act 2002 s 46(1), s 46(2), s 46(3)

Offences Against Designated and Accredited Persons

CJA 1988 s 134

Torture

Child Abduction Act 1984 s 1

Child Abduction (Parent)

Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 s 1, s 9(5)

Corporate Manslaughter

Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 ss 1–3, s 3A

Female Genital Mutilation

Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006 s 1, s 2

Obstruction of Emergency Workers

Child Abduction Act 1984 s 2

Abduction of child by other persons

Protection From Harassment Act 1997 s 2, s 4

Harassment

PHA 1997 s 2A, s 4A · ?

Stalking

Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 s 5

Causing/Allowing Death, or serious physical harm of a Child or Vulnerable Adult

SCA 2015 s 75A

Strangulation or suffocation

SCA 2015 s 76

Controlling or coercive behaviour in an intimate or family relationship

Children and Young Persons Act 1933 s 1

Cruelty to a Child

Infanticide Act 1938 s 1

Infanticide

Taking of Hostages Act 1982 s 1

Taking of Hostages

Infant Life (Preservation) Act 1929 s 1(1)

Child Destruction

Courts Act 2003 s 57

Assaulting or obstructing a Court Security Officer

Police Act 1996 s 89(1)–(2)

Assaulting, Resisting or Obstructing a Police Constable (execution of duty)

OSA 2023 s 184

Offence of encouraging or assisting serious self-harm

s 2

Suicide, Encourage or Assist

Assaults on Emergency Workers