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Pegg, S. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-8887-6952,
2019.
Not so clear cut: the lawfulness of body modifications.
Criminal Law Review (7), pp. 579-598.
ISSN 0011-135X
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Abstract
This article discusses the decision of the Court of Appeal in R v BM in which the Court had been asked to address whether consent could provide a defence to extreme body modification procedures, including tongue splitting. It considers the reasoning advanced by the Court in rejecting consent as a defence and questions whether our continuing reliance on Brown and the category-based exceptions provides a satisfactory method of delineating which activities can be lawfully consented to. It suggests that the decision has done little to clarify the legal position of body modifications which result in less serious harm and concludes that this area of the law is still ripe for reform.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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| Publication Title: | Criminal Law Review | ||||
| Creators: | Pegg, S. | ||||
| Publisher: | Sweet & Maxwell | ||||
| Date: | 30 June 2019 | ||||
| Number: | 7 | ||||
| ISSN: | 0011-135X | ||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||
| Date Added: | 01 Nov 2019 09:09 | ||||
| Last Modified: | 31 May 2021 15:19 | ||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/38092 |
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