It was also revealed that many more serious crimes ended in a caution, including robbery, gross bodily harm (GBH) and wounding.
He said there were no gaps in the current law, the public understood it in broad terms, and currently complex cases involving intention to kill or cause gross bodily harm, partial defences or various forms of manslaughter, could not be simplified by a new system.
Definitive evidence of this is provided in the work of Michael Marmot, Richard Wilkinson and others on the "social determinants of health", showing that gross inequalities harm the health of the underdogs of society, both by undermining their lifestyles and by making them prone to harmful behaviour patterns, such as smoking and excessive drinking.
He spent a month there, building a rapport with patients who, in most cases, were there because they'd inflicted gross bodily harm – many had killed – in the throes of psychosis, and were being helped to rehabilitate.
The constant exposure to self-harm and the threat of abuse and sexual assault – even if they were not themselves victims – was causing gross damage to the children's personal development, they said.
There is also legal production and a market for cocaine for medical use that is not associated with the gross environmental harms of the parallel illegal market".
We find certain things instinctively gross because they really can harm us.
The legislation protects educators from lawsuits related to their work unless harm results from "gross negligence" or "reckless misconduct".
And while it may be an applause line to bash professional consensus, gross misstatements can do real harm.
Intuitive weighting of harm is a gross intuitive estimation given by clinicians on a simple scale scoring from 0 to 10 about commission error (false positives) and omission error (false negatives) in therapeutic decisions.
