{"id":78,"date":"2004-03-21T13:31:56","date_gmt":"2004-03-21T13:31:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2004-03-21T13:31:56","modified_gmt":"2004-03-21T13:31:56","slug":"smith-r-v-wallace-duncan-no-4-2004-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Smith, R v  (Wallace Duncan) (No 4) [2004] CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><strong>Deception &#8211; s1 TA 1978 &#8211; deception can be anywhere in the world]<br \/><\/strong><\/font>D a Canadian <font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\"><span lang=EN-GB>working from the UK set up various bogus deals.&nbsp; A &#8220;repo&#8221; a type of lending occurred in New York, and so D alleged the UK courts had no jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><b>Held<\/b>: A court could try an offence of obtaining services by deception where the obtaining took place outside the jurisdiction but a substantial part of the deception took place within the jurisdiction, provided that there was no reason of international comity why the court should not do so.<\/p>\n<p>It would undermine the inherent nature of the common law if courts were prevented as a matter of principle from developing the law to meet the needs of contemporary society in the present situation.<\/p>\n<p><b>Guilty (of substituted offence of s1 TA 1978 )<\/b> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deception &#8211; s1 TA 1978 &#8211; deception can be anywhere in the world]D a Canadian working from the UK set up various bogus deals.&nbsp; A &#8220;repo&#8221; a type of lending occurred in New York, and so D alleged the UK courts had no jurisdiction. Held: A court could try an offence of obtaining services by [&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-78","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\/78","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=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}