What is an assault and a false arrest?
Alberta, Canada
The following excerpt is from Brandner v Alberta (Justice & Solicitor General), 2014 ABQB 211 (CanLII):
An assault is an attempt at battery: Jones v. Sherwood, [1942] 1 K.B. 127. Battery occurs when a person intentionally causes a harmful or offensive contact with another person. A false arrest occurs when a person is placed under arrest wrongfully. Generally a false imprisonment or detention is the wrongful imprisonment or detention of one person by another. Whenever a police officer restrains a person from being able to walk away, a detention occurs.
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