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R v Coney

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Referral from magistrates' court (certifying they were uncertain in law as to their decision); Divisional Court in turn referred matter to Crown Cases Reserved (drawing on a larger panel of judges)
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the assault. It was found however that an ordinary citizen is not under any duty to prevent an offence being committed and that failing to prevent it does not create liability as an accomplice.
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for a selection of scenarios in which the prohibition of actual bodily harm applies and where, for example in running the risk of ABH in less risky sports, it does not.
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The case also found that voluntary attendance as a spectator was evidence that could be put to the jury to support a charge of
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of the participants. This marked the end of widespread public bare-knuckle contests in England.
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Pugilistic Prosecutions: Prize Fighting and the Courts in Nineteenth Century Britain
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The principles laid down have been applied or nuanced (distinguished) in
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Attempting to choke, &c. in order to commit any indictable offence
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propensity to result in actual or grievous bodily harm
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Assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty
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Assaulting a constable in the execution of his duty
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Queen's Bench Division
Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice
Court for Crown Cases Reserved
bare-knuckle fight
assault occasioning actual bodily harm
consent
aiding and abetting
consensual crime
precedents
R v Brown
John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge
English criminal law
R v Clarkson (David)
Pugilistic Prosecutions: Prize Fighting and the Courts in Nineteenth Century Britain
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English criminal law
Indictable
Either way
Summary
Regulatory (lowered mens rea)
Statutory
Common law
Actus reus
Causation
Mens rea
Intention (criminal law)
Intention in English law

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