Objective
Certain property insurance policies specifically cover the perils of theft, robbery and burglary. Unfortunately, such policies do not go on to define such terms. In practice whenever a claim arises under any one of such policies and a disagreement emerges between the insurers and the claimants over the meanings of such terms, the claims handlers will refer to their meanings in the criminal law. This is practised not without difficulty as their legal meanings are rather different from what ordinary people would perceive them to be.
The purpose of this course is to explain the scopes of these three criminal offences, by reference to the relevant statutory provisions and by use of the relevant case law.
Content
Scopes of the statutory offences of theft, robbery and burglary.
