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  2. Fraud Act 2006 - Wikipedia

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    The Fraud Act 2006 (c 35) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which affects England and Wales and Northern Ireland. It was given royal assent on 8 November 2006, and came into effect on 15 January 2007.

  3. R v Ghosh - Wikipedia

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    R v Ghosh [1982] EWCA Crim 2 is an English criminal law case setting out a test for dishonest [a] conduct which was relevant as to many offences worded as doing an act dishonestly, such as deception, as theft, [1] as mainstream types of fraud, [2] and as benefits fraud.

  4. Dishonesty - Wikipedia

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    Dishonesty has had a number of definitions. For many years, there were two views of what constituted dishonesty in English law.The first contention was that the definitions of dishonesty (such as those within the Theft Act 1968) described a course of action, whereas the second contention was that the definition described a state of mind.

  5. Fraud Files: Enron's Jeffrey Skilling Says We Shouldn't ... - AOL

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    Last week, the poster boy for executives committing fraud, Jeffrey Skilling, had his appeal of his criminal conviction heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. Skilling was convicted in 2006 on 19 ...

  6. Obtaining pecuniary advantage by deception - Wikipedia

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    This offence replaced the offence of obtaining credit by fraud, contrary to section 13(1) of the Debtors Act 1869. [4] The elements of the actus reus are similar to the offence of obtaining property by deception: There must be a deception. This has the same meaning as for section 15 (according to section 16(3) of the Theft Act 1968).

  7. Obtaining property by deception - Wikipedia

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    This offence was created by section 15 of the Theft Act (Northern Ireland) 1969. That section was repealed on 15 January 2007 [11] by sections 14 and 15(1) and (4) of, and paragraph 1(c)(i) of Schedule 1 to, and Schedule 3 to, the Fraud Act 2006, subject to the transitional provisions and savings in paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to that Act ...

  8. Obtaining a money transfer by deception - Wikipedia

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    Both of those sections were inserted by section 1(1) of the Theft (Amendment) Act 1996. Section 15A was repealed on 15 January 2007 [1] by sections 14(1) and (3) and 15(1) of, and paragraph 1(a)(ii) of Schedule 1 to, and Schedule 3 to, the Fraud Act 2006, subject to transitional provisions and savings in paragraph 3 of Schedule 2 to that Act.

  9. Scammer who claimed to be an Irish heiress should be ... - AOL

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    Smyth faces four counts of fraud by abuse of position under the U.K. Fraud Act of 2006, and four counts of theft in violation of Northern Ireland's Theft Act of 1969, Nivison wrote.