Property Offences

Question 1

Theft (s1 Theft act 1968)

Answer 1

A person intentionally takes personal property of another without permission or consent and with the intent to convert it to the taker’s use.

Question 2

AR and MR of Theft

Answer 2

AR: Unauthorised taking, keeping, or using another’s property.

MR: Dishonesty and the intent to permanently deprive the owner or rightful of that property or its use.

Question 3

Robbery (s8 Theft Act 1968)

Answer 3

The action of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force or threat of force.

Question 4

AR and MR of Robbery

Answer 4

AR: A person uses force or threats of force on any person immediately before or at the time of stealing.

MR: Being dishonest and intentionally aiming to permanently deprive another person.

Question 5

Robbery Case: Corcoran v Anderton

Answer 5

Two D knocked down a woman, grabbing handbag, she didn’t let go, they ran off empty handed.

Held: Appropriation had taken place with the relevant dishonest intent to permanently deprive. Irrelevant they left empty, touching property amounts to appropriation.

Question 6

Theft Case: R v Lloyd

Answer 6

D worked in cinema and took films so that copies could be made by some associates.

Not theft as films returned to OG position and not lost practical value.