Interesting snippits of maybe relevant Law (UK)

FreedomToThink · Feb 29, 2008

Interesting snippits of maybe relevant Law (UK)

Offences Against The Person Act 1861[/url:1nfu64o3] leads us to :

Non-physical injury[/url:1nfu64o3]

"Non-physical or psychiatric injury can be considered "bodily harm" whether "actual" or "grievous", but there must be formal medical evidence to verify the injury. "

"The best medical practice today accepts a link between the body and psychiatric injury, so the words "bodily harm" in ss20 and 47 were capable of covering recognised psychiatric illnesses, such as an anxiety or a depressive disorder, which affect the central nervous system of the body. However, to qualify, those neuroses must be more than simple states of fear, or problems in coping with everyday life, which do not amount to psychiatric illnesses."

I'm no lawyer but I'd think brainwashing puts things well beyond 'problems in coping with everyday life'

(Please move to Think Tank if more appropriate there)

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