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Property offences, Theft - Coggle Diagram

- - - - S.3 Appropriation
        
        Assuming the rights of the owner
        
        R v Morris(labels)
        
        Pitham v Hehl(no touch)
        
        Hinks(gifting)
        
        Atakpu and Abrahams(continuous)
        
        s.3(1) appropriation can occur where D assumes a right to the property by keeping or dealing it
      - S.4 Property
        
        Includes money and all other property, real or personal, including things in action and other intangible property.
        
        Marshall(train tickets)
        
        Oxford v Moss(information isn't property)
        
        Things which cannot be stolen under Theft Act
        
        s.4(3) - Plants/Fungi growing wild on the land
        
        s.4(4) – wild creatures
        
        s.13 Theft Act – Electricity...
        
        Kelly(corpse)
      - S.5(1) Belonging to another
        
        property will be regarded as belonging to any other person having possession or control of it-owner, controller, possessor
        
        Woodman(scrap metal)
        
        Turner(stole his car back)
        
        Property received by mistake you have to give back S.5(4)
        
        AG Ref (No1 of 1983)
        
        Property received for a purpose you have to use it for that purpose S.5(3)
        
        Davidge v Bunnett(flat money)
        
        Proprietary interest. - s.5(2)
        
        Webster(sold medal on ebay)
  - - - No definition given however 3 examples of when a person is not dishonesty
        
        S.2(1)(b)Believes owner would want them to have it
        
        S.2(1(c)Taken reasonable steps to find the owner
        
        S.2 (1)(a)Believes they have the legal right
      - Barton v Booth
    - - Intention to treat the thing as his own to dispose of regardless of the other's rights; and a borrowing or lending
        
        Velumyl(took money from a safe
        
        Lloyd(not theft if the thing did not depreciate in value)
        
        DPP v lavender(took doors off council house)
      - A conditional intention is an intention to do something if certain conditions are met
        
        R v Easom (1971)
        
        A CONDITIONAL intention is NOT an intention to permanently deprive.