Chapter 10 - Fraud and related crimes

Question 1

Fraud

Answer 1

The elements of the crime are:

1. Misrepresentation
2. which causes or may cause prejudice and which is
3. unlawful and
4. intentional

Question 2

Forgery and uttering

Answer 2

Forgery consists in unlawfully making a false document to the actual or potential prejudice of another, while uttering consists in unlawfully and intentionally passing off a false document to the actual or potential prejudice of another.

Question 3

Theft by false pretences

Answer 3

A person commits theft by false pretences if she unlawfully obtains movable, corporeal property belonging to another, with the consent of the person from whom she obtains it, such consent being given as a result of a misrepresentation b the person committing the offence, and she appropriates it.