Corporate Criminal Liability

This new edition of Corporate Criminal Liability is thoroughly revised, expanded and updated to guide to the criminal process from the perspective of the corporate defendant with a scholarly analysis of the principles of corporate liability. It discusses the impact of the Bribery Act 2010 as well as a Director’s obligations plus fiduciary obligations and the responsibility of corporate liability. It provides practical guidance in responding to restraint orders as well as sentecing and mitigation.

Furthermore Corporate Criminal Liability also:

• Provides an detailed guide to Directors’ liability and Directors’ disqualification
• Explores the ’doctrine of identification’ and special rules of attribution fixing a corporation with liability for crimes
• Explains the court’s jurisdiction over companies and takes the reader step-by-step through the prosecution process from the issue of a summons to sentence and costs
• Contains expanded and updated analysis of the impact of restraint and confiscation orders on companies including a detailed examination of ‘piercing the corporate veil’ 
• Details analysis of FSMA and financial crime offences
• Provides a practical guide to corporate ‘best practice’ 
• Provides a guide to Corporate Manslaughter Act  2008 and considers Sentencing Guidelines
• Fully analyses the impact of the Bribery Act 
• Provides dedicated chapters on Companies and Insolvency Act offences
• Discusses investigative powers, self-incrimination and ‘derivative use’
• Updates law on Fraudulent Trading and False Accounting 
• Discusses the important issue of corporations and Human Rights
• Offers practical guidance on sentencing principles and practice relating to companies 
• Details consideration of regulatory offences and defences