Fraud Bill [HL]

I hope that I may proceed to answer the noble Lord briefly or to make a comment about the matter. The difficulty is that if you have a concept of a legal duty, for example, that you should indicate that you suspect there is some dry rot under the stairs, and you have not done so, that may very well bear on the decision whether you are or are not thought to have been dishonest. So the two concepts bounce within each other, which is one of the reasons why I understood the noble and learned Lord the Attorney-General rightly to remind us that dishonesty by itself, first, is not sufficient and, secondly, can be confusing. I am trying to tease out the question of legal duty. I much look forward to hearing what the noble and learned Lord the Attorney-General says.