{"id":39,"date":"2003-12-17T23:31:49","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T23:31:49","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-12-17T23:31:49","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T23:31:49","slug":"briggs-r-v-2003-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"Briggs, R v (2003) CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\"><b><font face=Verdana size=2>[Theft &#8211; appropriation does not include obtaining by deception]<br \/><\/font><\/b><font face=Verdana size=2>D deceived elderly relatives into making a payment to her during their house move, whereby she (and her father) obtained title to the new property.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=Verdana size=2><b>Held<\/b>: D did not appropriate an item if by fraud she induced the owner to part with that item. R v Naviede [1997] was relied on. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px\"><font face=Verdana size=2>If this were not the case there would be little need for many of the deception offences as many acts of deceptive conduct would be covered by theft, and the word &#8220;appropriation&#8221; connoted a physical act rather than a more remote action triggering the payment which gave rise to the charge. <\/p>\n<p><\/font><font face=Verdana size=2><b>Not guilty<\/b><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Theft &#8211; appropriation does not include obtaining by deception]D deceived elderly relatives into making a payment to her during their house move, whereby she (and her father) obtained title to the new property. Held: D did not appropriate an item if by fraud she induced the owner to part with that item. R v Naviede [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}