1st Edition

Dishonesty, Liability and the Law Exploring the Moral Importance of Context

274 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

274 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

In 2017, in Ivey v. Genting Casinos , the Supreme Court judged that the dishonesty test is objective and should be the single one in use for any area of law. The judgment sparked some criticism regarding the inflexibility of an objective test. The subsequent 2020 Court of Appeal judgment in R. v. Barton confirmed the objective test in Ivey. However, little dedicated discussion and analysis of... Read more

Introduction - Sotirios Santatzoglou, Anthony Wrigley, and Martin Wasik

Part A: Dishonesty Test and Context

Chapter. 1 - What is dishonesty and who decides?

Emily Finch

Chapter. 2 - Excuses and the objective approaches to dishonesty: From Ghosh/Hayes to Ivey/Barton with a reference to commercial context considerations 

Sotirios Santatzoglou 

Chapter. 3 - Theft, Fraud and Dishonesty: A Comparison between English Law and Chinese Law

Bo Wang

Chapter. 4 - How Bad Was That? Some Thoughts on Gauging the Depth of Dishonesty

Martin Wasik

Part B: Dishonesty in Public Life and Private Dealings

Chapter. 5 - Political Dishonesty, Democracy, and the Rationales of the Majority Rule

Yossi Nehushtan and Beatriz Flügel Assad

Chapter. 6 - Dishonesty and Young People’s Liability: The Case of Academic Misconduct

Mark Telford and Rose Tempowski

Chapter. 7 - Dishonest Sporting Governance? Reflections on Amateur Sport, Insurance and Liability

James Brown

Chapter. 8 - Privacy Preserving Lies

Tsachi Keren-Paz

Part C: Dishonesty in the Healthcare Context

Chapter. 9 - Dishonesty, Context, and Virtue Ethics: The Importance of Embedding Moral Theory in the Law of Dishonesty

Anthony Wrigley

Chapter. 10 - Ethical reflections on the Ivey test for dishonesty and its implications for the professional regulation of doctors

Jonathan A. Hughes

Chapter. 11 - Why do Nurses Lie? A version of the truth

Ruth Westerby

Chapter. 12 - Investigating dishonesty within the maternity and neonatal clinical setting

Sarah Lewis and Joanne Cookson

Biography

Sotirios Santatzoglou, Lecturer in the Law School of Keele University, UK

Martin Wasik, Emeritus Professor of Law, Keele University, UK

Anthony Wrigley, Professor of Ethics, Keele University, UK