Claudia owns a chain of tattoo parlours. She has developed a new technique forburning names ordesigns into a person's skin using a fine laserbeam. Unlike tattooing, it does not involve injection ofdyes under the skin.After the burnt area heals, the person is left with prominent, but narrow, lines ofpurplish/pink scar tissue in the form of the requested name or design. The advantages of this new lasertechnique are that, generally, the designs are removable by a process of dermabrasion, or minorsurgery.However,thisitselfmightcause somescarring.

Claudia wishes to know whether she is at risk of any criminal liability if she provides this laser -brandingservicetothosewhorequestit.