In message <[log in to unmask]>, Laurence Bebbington <[log in to unmask]> writes >But shoplifting unquestionably can be theft. I don't know the exact details for shoplifting, but I do know that there have been specific criminal offences introduced for both car "theft" and self-service petrol "theft" in both instances because the generic theft law had too many loopholes for successful prosecutions. -- Roland Perry ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ All archives of messages are stored permanently and are available to the world wide web community at large at http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/data-protection.html If you wish to leave this list please send the command leave data-protection to [log in to unmask] All user commands can be found at : - http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/help/commandref.htm (all commands go to [log in to unmask] not the list please) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^