There are a few different varieties of assault. The main
thing that differentiates them is injury suffered by the victim and whether the
assailant intended to inflict that injury on the victim. You will find a number
of detailed posts on our blog explaining the law on assault in detail, we won’t
deal with it all here as it will take up too much space. If you want to know
more about the law then please take a look at our blog pages or get in touch
with us.
The key to defending any criminal case is to identify material
that undermines the prosecution or which supports the defence. Our approach to
defending you begins with listening to your side of the story so we understand
your position – we want to know where you were, what you were doing, where you even
involved? We’ll want to understand how the incident started and who did what
during it. Did you throw the first punch to prevent an attack on yourself? Were
you defending somebody else? Once we understand your side of things we can look
closely at the prosecution evidence and begin that process of undermining the prosecution
case as well as building your defence case. We will help you understand the
evidence against you and ensure that you are able to properly deal with points
the prosecution are likely to bring up when questioning you in court.
We work with expert medical practitioners to assess whether
injuries claimed to have been suffered by the claimant are consistent with the type
of attack they claim to have suffered, the incident as seen by any independent
witnesses, and your own account of what went on. For example, in a recent case
the complainant and several, not wholly independent, witnesses claimed our client
had punched the complainant twice and then stamped on his head twice while he
lay on the floor. We were able to show through expert witness evidence that the
injuries shown in the police photographs were consistent with a single punch
and injuries caused by the complainant’s own glasses breaking on his face and
that there were no injuries at all consistent with stamping to the head.
Above all, our aim is to act in your best interests, to
defend you, and to give you the very best chance of winning your case. Nobody
can promise you victory, but we can promise to do everything possible to secure
you an acquittal.