Essential cases

Question 1

R v Morris provides us with an example of someone doing what?

Answer 1

Assuming the rights of the owner

Question 2

R v Lawrence tells us that theft can take place ____ ___ ______ __ ___ ______

Answer 2

With the consent of the victim

Question 3

R v Hinks tells that ___ ____ can be stolen

Answer 3

Voluntary theft

Question 4

Oxford v Moss

Answer 4

Tells us that information on a piece of paper cannot be stolen

Question 5

R v Marshall: re-selling t___ is theft

Answer 5

Theft

Question 6

R v Kelly informs us that stealing a ___ usually isn’t theft but if it has been altered then it is indeed theft

Answer 6

A corpse

Question 7

R v Webster

Answer 7

The rights of the owner override the rights of those in possession of the property.

Question 8

R v Davidge and Bunnett

Answer 8

Using money for a purpose other than what it was intended for is theft.

Question 9

DPP v Jones and Others

Answer 9

Breaking a borrowed item suggests you are assuming the rights of the owner.

Question 10

R v Lavender

Answer 10

Moving the owner’s property around without consent is theft.

Question 11

R v Small

Answer 11

One is immediately regarded honest if they believed they had the right to deprive the other of the object.

Question 12

R v Ghosh

Answer 12

Established the dishonesty test.

Question 13

R v Dawson and James

Answer 13

Declared that “force” had its ordinary meaning in court.

Question 14

B and R v DPP

Answer 14

Even if the V didn’t fear violence, if the D intended them to then it still counts as robbery.

Question 15

R v Clouden

Answer 15

Force used in robbery can be indirect like in R v Bentham

Question 16

R v Hale

Answer 16

If you steal something and then tie people up afterwards, you still used force to do so/ escape.

Question 17

R v Collins tells us what two things

Answer 17

1. If the victim invites you in, you cannot be a trespasser.

2. “effective and substantial entry”

Question 18

R v Brown

Answer 18

“effective entry”

Question 19

R v Ryan

Answer 19

“entry”- only his head and right arm were inside.

Question 20

R v Walkington

Answer 20

People with conditional intent will be convicted.

Question 21

R v Jones and Smith

Answer 21

If you enter with intent, even where you are welcomed, you are a trespasser.

Question 22

R v Turner

Answer 22

A person can retain possession rights until a bill has been paid

Question 23

R v Velumyl

Answer 23

Returning different items of the same value is still theft

Question 24

Ivey v Genting casinos

Answer 24

Abolished the subjective element of the Ghosh test and only leaves the first, objective part.

Question 25

R v Bentham

Answer 25

Force used in robbery can be indirect

Question 26

R v Cocoran and Anderson

Answer 26

If you attempt a robbery and fail, you will still be convicted.