Non Fatal Offences against the Person in UK Law
- The Mental Element in Non-Fatal Offences against the Person
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Homophobia, 'Increasing Barbarity' and 'Perverted' Desires: Why Brown Has no Place in Governing Consent to Non-fatal Offences Against the Person
This article discusses the relevance of Brown [1994] 1 AC 212 in today’s society, a quarter of a century after the House of Lords decision. It will be argued that the decision was wrongly decided o...
- How Far is too Far? - The Extent to which Consent is a Defence to Non-fatal Offences Against the Person Lord Mustill's Dissent in R v Brown [1994] 1 AC 212
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Not Giving Up the Fight
This article reviews the Commission’s 2015 recommendations on the non-fatal offences against the person. Its analysis focuses on three main pillars: (i) it examines whether the current law in this ......... clj.sagepub.com . Report on Non-fatal Offences Against the Person . ......
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Why has the Concept of Consent Proven So Difficult to Clarify?
The concept of consent is a fundamental element within various crimes of different natures. It plays a particularly important role in the crime of rape under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and non-fa......... in the crime of rape under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 and non-fatal offences under the s Against the Person Act 1861. It is within this former Act ......
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Consent and the ‘Rough Sex’ Defence in Rape, Murder, Manslaughter and Gross Negligence
When women die at the hands of men, a not infrequent defence is that she consented to, or initiated, the beating, strangulation and penetration which contributed to her death. While strangulation h......... consent to death’, provides ‘(1) If a person (“A”) wounds, assaults or asphyxiates another ... or not the actual bodil y harm, non-fatal strangulation, or more seri ous injury occurred ... assault occasionin g actual bodily harm, Offences Against the Person Act 1861, or more serious ......
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Book Review: Criminal Law (7th ed)
......, vicarious liability, and inchoate offences. 'Particular Crimes' goes through the ar gamut of fatal and then non-fatal offences against the ......
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Book Review: Card, Cross and Jones, Criminal Law (12th ed)
......, vicarious liability, and inchoate offences. 'Particular Crimes' goes through the ar gamut of fatal and then non-fatal offences against the ......
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Recent Book: Criminal Law: Text and Materials
......, general defences, causation, inchoate offences, parties to crime, non-fatal offences against the person, homicide, concluding with a general theory ......
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Common Assault: Alternatives and Attempts
......47 of the Offences Against the Person Act 1861 (count two). The ...fatal offences against the person (for a detailed ......
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