R v. Coney

R v. Coney

"R v. Coney" (1882) 8 QBD 534 is an English case in which the Court for Crown Cases Reserved found that a bare-knuckle fight was an assault occasioning actual bodily harm, despite the consent of the participants. This marked the end of widespread public bare-knuckle contests in England.

The case also found that voluntary attendance as a spectator was evidence that could be put to the jury to support a charge of aiding and abetting the assault.

The case has wide applicability to consensual crime cases down to the present day as in "R v. Brown".

Judges

*John Duke Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge

ee also

R v Clarkson (David) [1971]

External links

* [http://www2.umist.ac.uk/sport/SPORTS%20HISTORY/BSSH/The%20Sports%20Historian/TSH%2021-2/Art3-Anderson.htm Pugilistic Prosecutions: Prize Fighting and the Courts in Nineteenth Century Britain] by Jack Anderson


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