Corporate Criminal Liability for Criminal Acts of Corruption

Corporate Criminal Liability

The Common Law: Vicarious Liability and the Development of Primary Liability UNLESS THE TERMS OF THE STATUTE INVOLVED SPECIFICALLY PROVIDE TO the contrary, the criminal responsibility of a company or corporation, as distinct from its officers or employees, falls to be determined by common law principles. Under original common law, a company could not be convicted for any criminal offence. The c...

Basis of Criminal Liability for Genetic Change in the Womb

There is a very wide range of advances in the medicine that are used to meet the therapeutic needs. sometimes advances depend on technology and medical industries And sometimes this development depends on specialized sciences, Science of genetic change is one of these sciences, this science is often used to apply a gene change to the fetus, But the main question is that if the gene change in th...

Law Enforcement; a Function of Criminal Liability or Civil Liability

Despite the fact that in investigations and legal writings enough consideration has been paid to the founding principles and rules governing civil and criminal liability as well as damages of crime, the legal or disciplinary responsibility accompanying these two types of legal responsibilities has not been taken seriously into account and the people involved it - in particular, the authorities ...

Justifications and the Criminal Liability of Accessories

Towards a New Paradigm for Corporate Criminal Liability in Brazil: Lessons from Common Law Developments

While in several jurisdictions corporate criminal liability is accepted, in Brazil the maxim still prevails that corporations cannot commit crimes. In common law countries the attribution of criminal liability to corporations was developed more than a century ago, and the concept of corporate criminal liability has been extensively discussed. This work is an attempt to look into the common law ...