The defendants appealed from their conviction for theft having gone at night to a golf course to recover golf balls from a water hazard on the course. They said that the golf balls had been abandoned by their owners
Judges:
Mantell LJ, Jack J, Sir Richard Rougier
Citations:
[2003] EWCA Crim 2206
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Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd (T/A Crockfords) SC 25-Oct-2017
The claimant gambler sought payment of his winnings. The casino said that he had operated a system called edge-sorting to achieve the winnings, and that this was a form of cheating so as to excuse their payment. The system exploited tiny variances . .
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Crime
Updated: 15 September 2022; Ref: scu.441310
