Topical Frauds
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This section provides information and advice on a selection of the most topical frauds affecting both individuals and business. Please visit the drop-down menu on this tab for regularly updated content.
What is fraud?
The full name of this crime is 'falsehood, fraud and wilful imposition', but the term 'fraud' is invariably used alone to include all offences involving fraudulent deception. It is impossible to give a succinct definition to embrace all the modes of cheating which are punishable at common law, but the following three elements must be present in each case:
- Falsehood, i.e. false representations by word of mouth, or writing, or false conduct
- Fraud, i.e. intention to deceive and defraud, and
- Wilful imposition, i.e. that the cheat designed had been successful to the extent of gaining benefit or advantage, or of prejudicing, or tending to prejudice, the interests of another person.
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