The Supreme Court has held that the correct test for dishonesty is whether or not the defendant's conduct is dishonest by the objective standards of ordinary reasonable and honest people: Ivey v Genting Casinos (UK) Ltd t/a Crockfords [2017] UKSC 67. Albeit that the Court did not need to rule on the point, the judgment would remove the second limb of the previous two-phase objective and subjective test for dishonesty as set out in R v Ghosh [1982] QB 1053. The Court also concluded that the tests for dishonesty in criminal and civil proceedings should be the same. Please click here for our full briefing on the case.
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