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- "bodily harm" means any hurt or injury to a person that interferes with the health or comfort of the person and that is more than merely transient or trifling in nature;
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"bodily harm" means any hurt or injury to a person that interferes with the health or comfort of the person and that is more than merely transient or trifling in nature;
Learn how the term "bodily harm" is interpreted in the Canadian criminal justice system. The section explains the threshold of harm that is more than transient or trifling, and includes mental and emotional harm.
Learn what assault causing bodily harm means, how it is defined and punished under the Criminal Code, and what defences you can use if charged. Find out the difference between summary and indictable offences, and the factors that affect the Crown's decision.
Bodily harm is a legal term of art used in the definition of both statutory and common law offences in Australia, Canada, England and Wales and other common law jurisdictions. It is a synonym for injury or bodily injury and similar expressions
Section 264.1(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada criminalizes making threats to cause death or bodily harm to any person, to burn, destroy or damage property, or to kill, poison, or injure an animal or bird that is the property of any person.
Section 269 of the Criminal Code of Canada outlines the penalties for causing bodily harm to another person, which include imprisonment for up to ten years or eighteen months depending on the severity of the offense.
bodily harm means any hurt or injury to a person that interferes with the health or comfort of the person and that is more than merely transient or trifling in nature; (lésions corporelles) Canadian Forces
