Subjects:

Company Law, Criminal Law

Contents:

Historical background to corporate criminal liability.

Early development of corporate criminal liability.

Personal and vicarious liability of corporations.

The doctrine of identification.

The principle of delegation.

Directors' liability.

Jurisdiction over corporations.

Territorial jurisdiction.

Proceedings in criminal courts.

Categories of offence.

Corporations and human rights.

Sentence.

Costs.

Corporate manslaughter.

Financial offences.

Regulatory offences.

Appendices.

The public is increasingly concerned with corporate responsibility for fatal accidents and the criminal law is increasingly invoked to punish corporate fault. This work provides a practical guide to the implications of this area of law. It reviews the background to corporate criminal liability, considers who is responsible, discusses specific offences, and examines the present position of corporations facing a manslaughter allegation and what an Involuntary Homicide Act is likely to change.

• Practical treatment of major offences affecting companies
  
• Covers the new offences of corruption and the regime of restraint
  
• Gathers together a wide range of material - enabling immediate reference on procedure, evidence and law in a single source
  
• Sets out the relevant parts of leading authorities on the subject.