R v Coney
| R v Coney | |
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| Court | Queen's Bench Division |
| Decided | 1882 |
| Citation(s) | 8 QBD 534 |
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| Judge(s) sitting | John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge |
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. 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.
The case has wide applicability to consensual crime cases down to the present day as in R v Brown.
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See also
External links
- Pugilistic Prosecutions: Prize Fighting and the Courts in Nineteenth Century Britain by Jack Anderson
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