Unit 4 LAW04 - Criminal Law or Tort, and Concepts of Law
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Unit 4 LAW04 - Criminal Law or Tort, and Concepts of Law
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Unit 4 LAW04 - Criminal Law or Tort, and Concepts of Law
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CH8: Theft Main Authorities CH9: Robbery
Robbery (s8): Guilty if they steal,
Theft (s1): dishonestly Theft Act 1968 and immediately before or at the
appropriating property
belonging to another with the
R v Ghosh time of doing so, uses force on
any person or seeks to put fear of
intention to permanently
being subjected to force
deprive them of it
(1) Theft
Appropriation Dishonesty (S2) (2) Force/
(s3)
Property (s4)
With intention to
permanently
Putting or
seeking to
Actus
Belonging to deprive the put any Reus
Another (s5) other of it (s6) person in
fear of force
(1) Mens
Rea for
Actus Reus Mens Rea Mens Theft
Case Law:
Property Rea (2) Intended
R v Morris - D swapped price labels on to use force
item in shop (appropriation), only owner Offences to steal
can do that
R v Gomez - D given permission to take
from shop in exchange for cheque
(appropriation regardless of consent)
R v Dawson & James - jury
decided on all evidence what
Oxford v Moss - stole exam paper, held D constituted force
wasn't guilty cannot steal info however
paper can be
R v Hale - Appropriation was
R v Turner - D took his car to be fixed at infact continuing act
a garage and stole it back before paying
R v Robinson - conviction quashed
R v Hall - D hadn't committed theft as
money paid for didn't belong to another
since D wasn't dishonest
R v Ghost - test for dishonesty Corcoran v Anderton - dropped the
(1) Was what was done dishonest bag, but robbery had taken place
according to reasonable person?
(2) Did D realise wat they were doing
when bag was appropriated
were dishonest by those standards?
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