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Blackmail (Demand (Collister and Warhurst (Two defendants police officers…
Blackmail
Demand
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Collister and Warhurst
Two defendants police officers V they would hold back a report about an alleged sexual offence until the next day. They then asked V if he had anything for them and V handed over £5
The demand can be implied. The test is whether a reasonable man can see from the attitude, actions and circumstances that D is making a demand
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Treacy v Dpp
D posted letter to person In Germany containing a demand with menaces.Demand is made once D posted the letter as he had done all he could to communicate it
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Menaces
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Lawrence and Pomroy
D and V in dispute over money owed for repairs. D said “Step outside and we will sort this out”. One D had a flick-knife.Menaces’ is an ordinary English word which any jury can be expected to understand
HARRY
A letter to shopkeepers from a university student during rag week asking for donations to avoid ‘inconvenience” was not a “menace
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View to gain or loss
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Gain: Keeping what one has, gaining what one has not
Loss to another: losing what one has, not getting what one might get
Bevans
D demanded morphine injection at gunpoint.Things of economic value, such as a morphine injection to get pain relief from a doctor, are suffienct
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