Assignment task: Based on your reading of chapters eleven and twelve of the text, the Bahamas Penal Code (Chapter 84 - Sections 48-49, 56-57, 139-143, and 78-81), answer the following questions:
Q1. What offences have been committed in the following scenarios:
a. Dee persuades Jo to buy Phil's hotdog stand for £1,000 by persuading her that it is Dee's own. Phil, knowing nothing about the agreement, takes the stand round to Jo's house where he leaves it, believing that Jo is going to carry out some minor repairs for him. Dee meanwhile enters Phil's house because she is curious to see whether he has a large supply of hotdogs. She trips and breaks a vase.
b. Dee takes Phil's season ticket for the football club, uses it twice, and then returns it, but Phil has missed the match he most wanted to see.
c. Dee promises to mend Phil's bicycle tire and asks for £5 in advance. She spends the money on beer and never does the repair. Would it make any difference if she had asked Phil for the £5 saying that she needed it to buy materials?
d. Dee breaks into Phil's office, and removes a copy of an exam paper that Phil has just set for the forthcoming exams. She photocopies it and returns the original. She shows the copy to her friend Ann. She then makes an imaginary paper, and sells a copy of it to Belinda for £5, pretending that it is a copy of the real paper.
e. Dee obtains a student rail card by falsely representing that she is a student.
f. Dee finds Phil's credit card and takes it to the bank. She inserts it into the cash machine and the first PIN she invents works. She asks the machine for £100 cash which it gives to her, and then she transfers £50 from Phil's account to her own at the same bank.
Q2. Are the offences in the Public Order Act 1986 necessary?
Q3. A large crowd gathers at the docks to protest against the export abroad of young animals in small crates. Dee and Bee, peace-loving vegetarians, wave banners saying, 'You lorry drivers are murderous bastards' and 'Anyone who works in this trade deserves to be eaten'. Many others in the crowd, including Fee, throw bottles at lorries which arrive at the dock. Discuss the criminal liability of Dee, Bee, and Fee.
Q4. According to the Bahamas Penal Code (BPC), (Title iii-Section 48), when is a person guilty of fraudulent breach of trust?
Q5. According to the BPC, (Title iii-Section 49), under what circumstances can a person be found guilty of receiving stolen goods? Does it matter if the person does not know who the goods belong to?
Q6. According the BPC, is a person who appropriates something that has been lost by someone else guilty of stealing? Explain your answer.
Q7. According to the BPC, (Title iii-Section 58-59), how is defrauding by false pretenses different from fraudulent breach of trust?
Q8. According to the BPC, (Title iii-Section 78), when is an assembly considered to be tumultuous or riotous?
Q9. According to the BPC, (Title iii-Section 79), how is an unlawful assembly different from a tumultuous or riotous assembly?
Q10. According to the BPC, (Title xii-Sections 139-143, under what circumstances and/or conditions is a person likely to be sentenced to prison for stealing?