‘Two married constables working for Lancashire Police were sentenced last month for stealing police data about car crashes and selling it to claims firms for £363,000.’
Legal Futures, 8th November 2017
Source: www.legalfutures.co.uk
‘A former X Factor contestant has been found guilty of laundering £20,000 from a phone scam that defrauded 18 pensioners across southern England.’
BBC News. 3rd March 2016
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
Churngold Recycling Ltd v Environment Agency: [2014] EWCA Civ 909: [2014] WLR (D) 295
“Electronically stored information, as opposed to the media upon which it was stored, was intangible and not a chattel and could not be “goods” for the purposes of the Torts (Interference with Goods) Act 1977. It was accordingly not capable of being wrongfully interfered with so as to constitute the tort of conversion.’
WLR Daily, 4th July 2014
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
‘A publisher engaged a database manager to maintain a database of subscribers. There was no a formal contract and no provisions for termination were agreed. The relationship ended badly and the publisher gave a month’s notice. The database manager refused to release the database until outstanding fees and damages were paid – raising an old-style legal concept that was useful in the days before modern contracts.’
Technology Law Update, 20th March 2014
Source: www.technology-law-blog.co.uk
Cartwright and another v Registrar of Companies: [2012] EWCA Civ 1159; [2012] WLR (D) 255
“The date on which the administration of a company was converted into a creditors’ voluntary liquidation was the date on which the registrar of companies registered the conversion notice on the company’s file at Companies House, not the date the registrar received the notice sent by the administrators, on the true construction of paragraph 83 of Schedule B1 to the Insolvency Act 1986 as inserted. The administrators’ term of office was in general automatically extended if a conversion notice under paragraph 83 was duly filed.”
WLR Daily, 24th August 2012
Source: www.iclr.co.uk
Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“A defendant who allowed another person, B, to lodge, receive, retain or withdraw money which amounted to criminal property from the defendant’s bank account, was to be regarded as having criminally converted that property.”
The Times, 26th June 2009
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A defendant who allowed another person to lodge, receive, retain or withdraw money which amounted to criminal property from the defendant’s bank account, was to be regarded as having converted that property for the purposes of s 327(1)(c) of the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002.”
WLR Daily, 10th June 2009
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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Uzinterimpex JSC v Standard Bank plc
Court of Appeal
“In a claim in conversion for wrongful interference with goods, the claimant’s failure to mitigate the loss was a new intervening cause, breaking the link between the original wrongdoing and and the continuing loss, which released the wrongdoer from liability for subsequent loss after that failure.”
The Times, 12th August 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Uzinterimpex JSC v Standard Bank plc [2008] EWCA Civ 819; [2008] WLR (D) 240
“The general principle that damages in tort were to provide just compensation for the loss suffered in the particular circumstances of the case applied to the tort of conversion, giving rise to a duty to mitigate loss flowing from the wrongful act.”
WLR Daily, 16th July 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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