Your law lecturer’s example is not well-chosen. If you take an umbrella believing it to be yours, then you certainly do intend (at that moment) permanently to deprive the owner of his property; but you are not acting dishonestly, so no offence is committed.
Your law lecturer’s example is not well-chosen. If you take an umbrella believing it to be yours, then you certainly do intend (at that moment) permanently to deprive the owner of his property; but you are not acting dishonestly, so no offence is committed.
I disagree. Look at the precedent adverb. It was not taken ‘dishonnestly’ therefore no mens rea.