#law #tort #trespass
Areas where consent may negative a battery are in the field of medical treatment, Chatterton v Gerson [1981] l All ER 257, and sporting occasions. Lord Brown-Wilkinson reconfirmed this point in Airedale NHS Trust v Bland [1993] 1 All ER 821, 881:
Any treatment given by a doctor to a patient which is invasive ... is unlawful unless done with the consent of the patient: it constitutes the crime of battery and the tort of trespass to person.
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