be guilty if what the defendant did was dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people and the defendant realised this. He held that the same principle should apply even where the vitiating factor was something else: undue influence or duress, for example. Lord Hutton therefore allowed the appeal and held that their convictions should be quashed. Lord Hobhouse concurred. See also English criminal law List of United Kingdom House of Lords Cases Theft References External links Full text of judgment H 2000 in British law House of Lords cases 2000 in case law