consent eval

• positive

  keeps public safe - cannot consent to street fighting (AGs Ref No6)
• positive

  defence needed otherwise contact sports, tattoos, piercings and surgery would be criminal

  allows society to function and people can express themselves
• positive

  must be of age to consent (Burrell)

  protects children
• negative

  law lagging behind views in today's society (Dr Evil) (Brown)
• negative

  inconsistency (Wilson) vs (Brown)
• negative

  difficulties surrounding euthanasia, moral issue

  lack of autonomy over own life
• negative

  common law defence

  subjective decisions, hard to follow
• reforms

  law commission reviewed the defence of consent in 1995 but no real reforms were suggested
• con - backlash on law LGBTQ+ community, difference between (Wilson) and (Brown), discriminatory