[ case ] FACTS: B punched G and fractured his jaw in two places during a rugby match. He was charged under the OAPA 1861, s 20. HELD: The judge directed that the players are deemed to consent to force of 'a kind which could reasonably be expected to happen during a game'. The jury decided that consent had been given. The victim said he had been punched on previous occasions and had punched others. Mervyn Davies, a former Welsh International said that in the modern game punching is the rule not the exception!
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R v Billinghurst [1978] Crim LR 553
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[ case ] FACTS: B punched G and fractured his jaw in two places during a rugby match. He was charged under the OAPA 1861, s 20. HELD: The judge directed that the players are deemed to consent to force of 'a kind which could reasonably be expected to happen during a game'. The jury decided that consent had been given. The victim said he had been punched on previous occasions and had punched others. Mervyn Davies, a former Welsh International said that in the modern game punching is the rule not the exception!
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[ case ] FACTS: B punched G and fractured his jaw in two places during a rugby match. He was charged under the OAPA 1861, s 20. HELD: The judge directed that the players are deemed to consent to force of 'a kind which could reasonably be expected to happen during a game'. The jury decided that consent had been given. The victim said he had been punched on previous occasions and had punched others. Mervyn Davies, a former Welsh International said that in the modern game punching is the rule not the exception!
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R v Billinghurst [1978] Crim LR 553
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