Multi Choice Flashcards
(9 cards)
Define document (d):
Any material by means of which information is supplied to any device used for recording or storing
Examples of privilege or benefit:
- Using another persons gym membership
- Access to medical services
- The withdrawal of an assault charge
- A reduction in sentence for an offence
Where there is an agreement that the sending of some item (eg a cheque by post) shall complete a transaction, when is the obtaining complete?
At the time of posting
What was said in Adams on Criminal Law in relation to the continuing effect of a representation:
In many cases a representation, whether by words or conduct, may be of a continuing effect.
If goods are obtained on a hire purchase by a false representation but then sold to another, what offence is committed?
Theft by conversion
Define endorse:
To write or sign on a document
What is a false document (a)?
Means a document
a) of which the whole or any material part purports to be made by any person who did not make it, or by a fictitious person
What must the prosecution prove for forgery?
That the defendant, knowing that the document was false, had intended either:
- To use the false document to obtain
- That the false document be used as genuine
4 Examples of Forgery:
- Writing an exam in the name of someone else who was meant to sit it.
- Pre-dating a deed to give it priority over another
- Forging letters of recommendation in a CV that are necessary to obtain a position
- Falsely completing a statement of service on a witness summons
