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Dishonesty Dishonesty is an element of liability in theft obstructing electricity, deception, handling stolen goods and some related offences. To convict of such offences the magistrates or jury must be satisfied that what was done was dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people and that the defendant had realised that at the time. The 1968 Act only provides a partial definition of dishonesty, leaving some discretion to the courts. Unusually, the statutory definition, contained in section 2(1), makes use of examples, stating three situations in which a defendant should not be deemed dishonest: * If he appropriates property in the belief that he has in law the right to deprive the other of it, on behalf of himself or of a third person; or * If he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other's consent if the other knew of the appropriation and circumstances of it; or *...

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