Her Majesty The Queen v. Tom Dudley and Edwin Stephens
R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273 DC is a leading English criminal case that established a precedent throughout the common law world that necessity is not a defence to a charge of murder.
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This is a 19th-century British law case that is famous and much debated in law schools.
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