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Extreme sumarization of r v brown( key point of arguments used by the five judges) Question certified by COA "Where A wounds or assaults B occasioning him actual bodily harm in the course of a sado-masochistic encounter, does the prosecution have to prove lack of consent on the part of B before they can - 1 - establish A's guilt under section 20 and section 47 of the 1861, Offences Against the Person Act?" Lord templement In Reg. v. Coney (1882) Cave J "The true view is, I think, that a blow struck in anger, or which is likely or is intended to do corporal hurt, is an assault, but that a blow struck in sport, and not likely nor intended to cause bodily harm, is not an assault, and that an assault being a breach of the …show more content…

. . a homosexual act in private shall not be an offence provided that the parties consent thereto and have attained the age of 21 years. "(2) An act which would otherwise be treated for the purposes of this Act as being done in private shall not be so treated if done - (a) when more than two persons take part or are present; . . . "(6) It is hereby declared that where in any proceedings it is charged that a homosexual act is an offence the prosecutor shall have the burden of proving that the act was done otherwise than in private or otherwise than with the consent of the parties or that any of the parties had not attained the age of 21 years. "(7) For the purposes of this section a man shall be treated as doing a homosexual act if, and only if, he commits buggery with another -6- man or commits an act of gross indecency with another man or is a party to the commission by a man of such an act." By the Act of 1967, Parliament recognised and accepted the practice of homosexuality. Subject to exceptions not here relevant, sexual activities conducted in private between not more than two consenting adults of the same sex or different sexes are now lawful. Homosexual activities performed in circumstances which do not fall within section 1(1) of the Act of 1967 remain unlawful. Subject to the respect for private life embodied in the Act of 1967, Parliament

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