Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Blackmail: S21 Theft
Act 1968
- AR
- make demand
- words, conduct,
writing
- Collister and Warhurst, V need not
hear/receive demand, can be implied
- Treacy, once letter
posted AR completed
- with menaces
- serious
threat
- Throne, includes any action
detrimental/unpleasant to
person addressed
- Clear, affects normal
person its sufficient
- Garwood, if D aware of likely effect on
V, like they were timid, its sufficient
- that's
unwarranted
- unless D believes
- 1) he has reasonable grounds
for reinforcing demand, and
- 2) the use of menaces was a
proper means of reinforcing
demand
- Harvey, whether D in fact believed that what he
threatened to do was morally/socially acceptable
according to standards of society
- MR
- making gain/causing loss
- can be temporary/permanent
- even if don't succeed
still guilty
- Bevans, D in severe pain so pointed gun at Dr
demanding him to inject him with morphine
- in terms of
money/property