Then, they had to ask whether the defendant must have realised that their conduct would be seen as dishonest by those standards.
Since a landmark case in 1982, juries have been asked to apply a two-stage test when tackling the dishonesty question.įirstly, jurors had to ask whether what a defendant did was dishonest by the standards of ordinary people. The case led the Supreme Court to legal conclusions that go far beyond the intricacies of card games and will have a profound impact on criminal cases in England and Wales that revolve around whether someone acted dishonestly.
