That may be a valid defence before a man finds God.

Professional expertise and good faith are often valid defences.

Furthermore, reliance on reliable sources (even if they prove false) is a valid defence.

Is climate change a valid defence?

R v Wilson (1996), which involved a case where a husband branded his wife's buttocks, upheld that consent can be a valid defence.

If a company has a valid defence to the statutory demand, it can apply to the court to stop the creditor presenting a winding-up petition.

Consequently, the Appeal Court decided that had the women known of his infection, their consent to unprotected sexual intercourse would have been a valid defence.

Nevertheless, consent would be a valid defence where the harm was trivial or where it is part of a socially valuable activity such as sports.

Valid defences are those of statutory authority, consent, where it is necessary to interfere with the goods, or jus tertii.

If one has a valid defence, one's conduct is justified and one has not behaved wrongfully or unlawfully.

The subsequent trial, R. v. Dudley and Stephens, established the common law principle that necessity is not a valid defence against a charge of murder.

As such, the Carlton program, which was created to criticise chequebook journalism, could use the Taff extract and claim fair dealing as a valid defence.

The key issue facing the Court was whether consent was a valid defence to assault in these circumstances, to which the Court answered in the negative.

Under Section 29(1) of the 1988 Act, fair dealing is a valid defence when dealing with copyright infringement for the purpose of non-commercial research or private study.

Section 2 of the Act creates a valid defence that the defendant "had reasonable cause to believe" that scenes of animal cruelty in a film were simulated, not actual.

Other valid defences are where the claimant has consented, expressly or impliedly, to the accumulation of the "thing", and where there is statutory authority for the accumulation.

If he didn't turn up on parade it was a valid defence to say he didn't know he had to, and the corporal got blamed for not looking after his men properly.

In medieval times, the normal presumption of the courts was that any history or implication of consent on the part of the woman was a valid defence to an appeal of rape.

That, however, did not mean that the clause necessarily gave the sellers a valid defence because the clause still had to satisfy the recent legislation on exemption clauses (see further, paragraph 10-21 below).

An indemnifier, however, can be liable when the customer has a valid defence and can sometimes be liable to a greater extent than the customer (see Goulston Discount Co.

Heavily influenced by the nineteenth century boxing case of R v Coney, the trial judge ruled that consent was not a valid defence to actual bodily harm, and the defendants pleaded guilty.

As the defamation defences of justification and fair comment were viewed as inappropriate in protecting the court from attacks, the High Court declined to recognise them as valid defences to scandalizing contempt.

This section allowed the defendant to prove the truth of a libel as a valid defence in criminal proceedings, but only if it also be demonstrated that publication of the libel was to the "Public Benefit".

Self-defence is also a valid defence to trespasses against the person, assuming that it constituted the use of "reasonable force which they honestly and reasonably believe is necessary to protect themselves or someone else, or property".

It seems that the non-malicious act of a stranger was not a valid defence to the scienter action, because it was within the risk that must be accepted by anyone who knowingly chooses to keep a dangerous animal.