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A Lawyer Writes

Is it forgery or fraud?

What crime would you commit by lying about where you have been?

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Joshua Rozenberg
Feb 10, 2021
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I wrote a piece this morning arguing that quarantine-dodgers were unlikely to be punished. with anything like the 10 years’ imprisonment threaten by the government. Some lawyers are now suggesting they might not even be convicted at all — at least under the statute I mentioned.

Heathrow Airport by Belinda Fewings on Unsplash

Our starting-point must be a s…

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