Grievous bodily harm
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Grievous bodily harm (often abbreviated to GBH) is a term used in English criminal law to describe the severest forms of battery. It refers to two offences that are respectively created by sections 18 and 20 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861.
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See also
- Assault occasioning actual bodily harm (ABH)
- Bodily harm
- Non-fatal offences against the person in English law
- Offence against the person
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