Theft

Question 1

Theft Act 1968

Answer 1

A person is guilty of Theft if he dishonestly, appropriates, property, belonging to another, with the intention of permanently depriving another of it

Question 2

AR elements

Answer 2

• Appropriation
• Property
• Belonging to another

Question 3

Appropriation

Answer 3

Any assumption by a person of the rights of an owner amounts to appropriation. Sec 3
- Gomez (appropriation doesn’t require the absence of consent)
- Hinks (even when victim consents)
- Morris (switching of clothes is appropriation)

Question 4

Property

Answer 4

• Includes money and all other personal property including things in action and other intangible property.
• Money, real property, personal property, things in action, intangible property

Question 5

What can’t be stolen?

Answer 5

• Plants growing in the wild
• Wild animals unless they have been captured

Question 6

s5 Belonging to another

Answer 6

Turner No2
R v Basildon Magistrates Court