The Times: Job file: If you have been overpaid, be very, very scared
By Simon Howard
May 16, 2004
NOT long ago I sat through the proceedings of a High Court case, and for the whole first day the lawyers debated which definition of dishonesty would be used. As I learnt then, the term “dishonest” is not very precise. It covers everything from a little white lie about whom you met for a drink last night to the “dishonest appropriation of property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving that person of it” — in other words, theft.