Introduced as part of the Government’s Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy 2021 and enshrined in law by s75A of the Serious Crime Act 2015, the offences of non-fatal suffocation and strangulation are increasingly being charged alongside other more common offences against the person as well as offences such as controlling and coercive behaviour.
Following on from successful acquittals of a teaching assistant charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm on a pupil and another charged with assault by beating of a pupil, James has secured a further acquittal for a teacher charged with punching a pupil in the face.
Following on from his successful acquittal of a teaching assistant charged with s20 grievous bodily harm in June this year, James was instructed to represent another teaching assistant charged with assaulting a pupil.
James Holding secured the acquittal of a teaching assistant charged with s20 grievous bodily harm against an 11 year old school boy following a three-day trial at Leeds Crown Court.