Offences Against the Person

Offences against the person are contained in part VIII of the Criminal Code, which also contains offences related to reputation. This part of the Code contains a large number of offences including assault offences, killing offences, negligence offences, and kidnapping offences. It also includes other common offences such as uttering threats and criminal harassment. Offences against the person contains all offences where the principle subject matter of the offence is a person.