... having two definitions, one for the s.18 offence, and another for the s.20. This has led the Joint Charging Standard to clarify the issue of what charge to bring for different levels of injury, although even that is wrong; any injury which causes blood to flow could be charged as wounding, even a grazed knee. This, as should be obvious, is a major injustice, seeing as a grazed knee is the least serious of wounds which could be sustained, yet if I were to push someone and they grazed their knee, I could face the same sentence and criminal trial as someone who recklessly runs towards someone with a pair of scissors, fails to stop and ends up stabbing them in their stomach, which could cause a substantially larger problem for the victim. Another linguistic criticism lies in the use of "inflict" in s.20 and "cause" in s.18. It is argued ...

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