Regina v Lancaster – WLR Daily

Posted March 5th, 2010 in appeals, benefits, false accounting, law reports, theft by sally

Regina v Lancaster [2010] EWCA Crim 370; [2010] WLR (D) 63

“Where a person was charged with an offence of falsifying a document made or required for an accounting purpose, by omitting a material particular from that document, contrary to s 17 of the Theft Act 1968, the omitted particular was to be regarded as material if it had the effect that the document was liable to mislead in a way which was significant, or in a way which mattered.”

WLR Daily, 4th March 2010

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