‘The defence of consent to offences against the person does not rely upon particular legal principles or legal notions of acceptable harm. Rather, it has evolved as a matter of public policy. This allows for an unprincipled approach to determining whether the defence of consent is lawful, as was clearly illustrated in the case of R v Brown [1994] 1 AC 212 .' Discuss.
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