R v Moore [1898] 14 TLR, 229

Citation:R v Moore [1898] 14 TLR, 229

Link to case on WorldLII (reference).

Rule of thumb:How do you pursue a sporting injury claim? The full factual circumstances have to be explained – it then has to be affirmed whether the intention was to play by the rules or deliberately breach – a deliberate breach is an actionable case.

Judgment:

the basic facts of this case were that a terrible challenge was put in on the goalkeeper’s knee The goalkeeper’s knee then went into another player’s head and this caused a brain injury. The jury found the defendant in this case guilty of a criminal offence, Justice Bramwell gave the jury this direction, ‘No-one has the right to use force which was likely to injure another, and if he did use such force and death resulted, the crime of manslaughter had been committed.’

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