Unlawful touching will only amount to a battery if it is hostile.

Name: Unlawful touching will only amount to a battery if it is hostile.
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The unlawful touching need not be hostile to amount to a battery. Touching will only amount to a battery where it does not fall within the category of physical contacts 'generally acceptable in the ordinary conduct of general life' (Goff LJ, Collins v Wilcock)

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