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would also exist if the acts were done with reckless indifference or deliberate blindness to that invalidity or lack of power and that likely injury. These elements, with respect, are consistent with the views of the majority albeit that some of those views were expressed tentatively having regard to the basis upon which the case before them was presented.
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an awareness that his act may have the consequence of causing some physical harm to some other person ... It is quite unnecessary that the accused should have foreseen that his unlawful act might cause physical harm of the gravity described in the section, i.e. a wound or serious physical injury. It
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2 QB 335, in which Steyn LJ. found that malice could be made out if the acts were done with an actual intention to cause injury. Malice could be shown if the acts were done in the knowledge of invalidity or lack of power and with knowledge that it would cause or be likely to cause injury. Malice
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recklessness as to whether such harm should occur or not (i.e. the accused has foreseen that the particular kind of harm might be done and yet has gone on to take the risk of it).
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In many kinds of cases, malice must be found to exist in order to convict. (For example, malice is an element of the crime of
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is enough that he should have foreseen that some physical harm to some person, albeit of a minor character, might result.
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In any statutory definition of a crime, malice must be taken ... as requiring either:
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an actual intention to do the particular kind of harm that in fact was done; or
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civil law (being the law of England and Wales), relevant case law in
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