Corruption and Dishonesty

Dishonesty - Theft - Corruption
Wheatley and another v Commissioner of Police of the British
Virgin Islands [2006] UKPC 24
PC
4 May 2006
Daily Law Notes Report Summary
Privy Council Judgment
Although in most cases of theft there would be an original owner
of money or goods who would be poorer because of the defendant's
conduct, the prospect of loss was not determinative of the
dishonesty necessary to establish the offence.