Skip to content
+44 20 3290 3237/+1 (315) 677-1697
orders@lawcinder.com
Lawcinder
Best Law Writing Services
Search for:
Menu
Home
All Answers
Custom Help
Our Services
My Account
My Cart
My Wishlist
Contact us
Human Rights Law Case Study Scenario and question NOT included.
March 1, 2018
henry
Post navigation
Theft, Robbery, and Burglary Problem Question Margaret, an elderly lady, invites Helen, her next-door neighbour, to come into her house as she would like Helen to run an errand for her. While Margaret goes out of the lounge to fetch her purse from the kitchen, Helen helps herself to two chocolate liqueurs from a dish on Margaret’s coffee table. Margaret returns from the kitchen and says that she must have left her purse upstairs in her bedroom and would Helen mind fetching it for her. Whilst on the upstairs landing, Helen notices an expensive bottle of perfume in the bathroom. She goes into the bathroom to spray some on to her wrist, but then decides to take the whole bottle which she slips into her pocket. When Helen gets back downstairs with the purse she gives it to Margaret who hand her a £20 note and asks Helen to go to the local store and buy her a few groceries. Without asking, Helen borrows Margaret’s bicycle to go to the store. While at the store she sees a DVD which is expensive at £14.99 so decides to switch price labels with one priced at £9.99. In doing so, she is watched on CCTV by the Store Manager who confronts her as she is approaching the till with the DVD in her hand. Helen panics and pushes the Manager to one side in order to escape. She goes to another store and buys the groceries but keeps £2 change, which she uses to buy herself a magazine. She returns to Margaret’s house and delivers the groceries, telling her that there is no change. Discuss the potential criminal liability of Helen for theft, burglary and robbery, together with any possible defences that she could plead. [OCR, Jan 2003 as adapted by Dr Peter Jepson and Mrs Anna Lindley.]
Land Law Case Study Scenario and question NOT included.