R v Coney
| Jurisdiction | England & Wales |
| Date | 1881 |
| Court | Court for Crown Cases Reserved |
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R v Brown Lucas Jaggard Laskey Carter (Conjoined Appeals)
...fights were unlawful even if the protagonists consented. Rightly or wrongly the courts accepted that boxing is a lawful activity. 18In Reg. v. Coney (1882) 8 Q.B.D. 534 , the court held that a prize-fight in public was unlawful. Cave J. said, at p. 539: "The true view is, I think, that a b......
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R v Brown (Anthony) ; R v Laskey (Colin) ; R v Jaggard ; R v Lucas (Saxon) ; R v Carter ; R v Cadman
...though the assault might have amounted to grievous bodily harm or wounding. His Lordship reviewed the classic authority R v ConeyELR ((1882) 8 QBD 534), the prize fight case, R v DonovanELR ([1934] 2 KB 498), in which the reasoning of the court seemed to have been tautologous, as was pointe......
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Secondary Liability In The Criminal Law
...but in such a case D must intend that his presence should encourage P, and P must in fact be encouraged by D's presence: Coney (1882) 8 Q.B.D. 534. In Wilcox v. Jeffrey [1951] 1 All E.R. 464, D's presence at a jazz concert given by a performer who did not have a work permit encouraged a con......
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Table of Cases
...PC 149 Pyrene Co Ltd v Scindia Navigation Co Ltd [1954] 2 QB 402, [1954] 2 WLR 1005, [1954] 2 All ER 158 91 Queen, The v Coney (1882) LR 8 QBD 534, 51 LJMC 66, 46 LT 307, 46 JP 404, 30 WR 678, 15 Cox CC 46, CCR 319–20, 324, 325 Queensland Mines v Hudson [1978] UKPC 2, (1978) 18 ALR 1, 52 AJ......
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A Different Ball Game—Why the Nature of Consent in Contact Sports Undermines a Unitary Approach
...were recently revisited in Rv B[2006] All ER (D)173 (Oct). The provisions create rebuttable and irrebuttable presumptions.20 Rv Coney (1882) 8 QBD 534.21 Ibid. at 549. 22 [1984] 1 WLR 1172 at 1177, per Robert Goff LJ.A Different Ball Game—Consent in Contact An alternative view allows for co......
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The Need to Kill Off Zombie Law
...Court [1989] AC 28 HL, 41–42 (Lord Ackner).47. Cole vTurner (1704) 87 Eng Rep 907, 6 Mod 149, Court of King’s Bench. See also Coney (1882) 8 QBD 534 CCR, 539 (CaveJ) and 553 (Hawkins J).48. Rosinski (1824) 168 Eng. Rep. 1168, 1 Mood. 26 CCR.49. Coney (1882) 8 QBD 534, 553 CCR.50. Brown [199......
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A Normative Case for Abolishing the Doctrine of Extended Joint Criminal Enterprise
...19), 82.63. John Gardner, Offences and Defences (OUP, Oxford 2007) 246–247.64. See Virgo (n 17), 860.65. Ibid 862.66. Ibid.67. R v Coney (1882) 8 QBD 534; National Coal Board v Gamble [1959] 1 QB 11; R v Clarkson [1971] 1 WLR 1402; RvGiannetto [1997] 1 Cr App R 1; s. 8 of the Accessories an......
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