Affray
The offence is committed when a person uses or threatens unlawful violence towards another that would cause a person of reasonable firmness present at the scene to fear for his or her personal safety.
It is usually charged by police when there has been a fight in public involving more than two persons and none of those alleged to have been involved complains to the police; such that there is no "victim". In this scenario the victim becomes the "reasonable bystander" who is put in fear by witnessing the fight.
The maximum penalty is imprisonment for 2 years.
It is a defence to this charge if the accused person was acting in self defence.
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