Timeline for Is it legal to lie about race on college applications
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| Sep 26, 2022 at 13:58 | comment | added | Stuart F | In practice, I suspect prosecutors/claimants would seek evidence of intention to defraud, e.g. telling a friend of your brilliantly diabolical scheme, or posting about it on the internet. | |
| Sep 23, 2022 at 8:59 | comment | added | JBentley | On the other hand, a person who genuinely self-identifies as the race might not meet the "dishonestly" element of s 2(1) even if they know the representation might be misleading. | |
| Sep 23, 2022 at 8:51 | comment | added | JBentley | Interesting point about self-identification. That might be slightly easier to counter in E&W at least, where a representation can be merely misleading rather than untrue, and the person making it doesn't have to believe that it is misleading but merely that it might be misleading. So for example if a person self identifies as a race but knows that other people are unlikely to see it that way, that might fall within "the person making [the representation] knows that [it] might be [...] misleading." of the Fraud Act 2006, s 2(2). | |
| Sep 22, 2022 at 21:49 | history | answered | Dale M♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |