On a charge of false accounting, the dishonest document was a claim form under an insurance policy. The judge told the jury, as is the case, that such a form would on occasion be looked at by the auditors of the insurance company. There was, however, no evidence to that effect.
Held: Merely by looking at the claim form the jury could not be expected, by drawing on their general experience and knowledge of the world, to reach that conclusion for themselves.
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[1998] EWCA Crim 225
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Cited – Regina v Manning CACD 24-Jun-1998
The defendant appealed his conviction for obtaining property by deception where part of the offence had taken place abroad.
Held: Smith should be overturned. The last act or terminatory theory remains the binding common law of England and . .
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Updated: 11 October 2022; Ref: scu.153099