Consent - Legal Principle

Question 1

R v Donovan

Answer 1

Consent can be a defence to battery

Question 2

R v Slingsby

Answer 2

Consent as a defence to unlawful act manslaughter

Question 3

R v Tabassum

Answer 3

Consent given by V must be true consent

Question 4

R v Olugboja

Answer 4

Mere submission is not consent

Question 5

R v Golding

Answer 5

Serious harm cannot be consented to

Question 6

R v Barnes
R v Billinghurst

Answer 6

Injury sustained in the course of sport by an action that is in the rules is consensual

Question 7

R v Brown

Answer 7

People cannot consent to sado-masochistic injury

Question 8

R v Jones
R v Aitken

Answer 8

Genuine but mistaken consent can lead to a defence

Question 9

Wilson v Pringle

Answer 9

Implied Consent: Ordinary ‘jostlings’ of life are no battery

Question 10

AG Reference [No.6 1980]

Answer 10

s.47 injuries cannot be consented to aside from certain exceptions

Question 11

R v BM

Answer 11

Cannot consent to ABH/GBH Wounding (Body Modification)

Question 12

R v Emmett

Answer 12

Consent cannot be a defence where injury is more than ‘transient or trifling’