LAW230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fighting In Ice Hockey, Indictable Offence, Implied Consent
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Assaults are one of the most common calls police attend. 265(1: someone forcibly touches someone else without that person"s permission. This can be anything from spitting on a person to gouging them with a knife. Directly means direct contact; indirectly means, for example, pushing one person who then falls against another person. You have assaulted both: means: it is another form of assault to make threatening gestures. For example, making a fist and holding it up to another person"s face in a threatening manner. For example, a panhandler with a knife openly visible in her belt loop if she makes no motion to use the knife. What about when two people agree to a fist fight: cases of this nature have been in courts for years. Supreme court of canada has decided that, it is not in the public interest to allow people to go around hurting each other.
