“It has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked”. How, then, can a company be held criminally liable? Various jurisdictions have grappled with this question and recent developments in the UK have increased the...more
11/20/2020
/ Barclays ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Crimes ,
Corporate Executives ,
Corporate Liability ,
Corporate Officers ,
English Common Law ,
Fraud ,
UK ,
UK Bribery Act ,
UK Corporate Criminal Offense ,
Vicarious Liability
The Australian Law Reform Commission (the “ALRC”) has proposed a number of reforms to Australia’s federal corporate criminal liability regime. The entire document bears close examination. In this article, we focus on the...more
1/30/2020
/ ASIC ,
Australia ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Corporate Culture ,
Corporate Liability ,
Corporate Misconduct ,
Criminal Code ,
Criminal Liability ,
Discussion Draft ,
Enforcement ,
Proposed Standards ,
Serious Fraud Office (SFO) ,
UK Bribery Act ,
Vicarious Liability ,
White Collar Crimes
In this second article of our series on the House of Lords Select Committee’s recent report, entitled “The Bribery Act 2010: post-legislative scrutiny”, we come to that now inescapable topic in British law and politics —...more
4/5/2019
/ Bilateral Agreements ,
Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Criminal Investigations ,
Cross-Border ,
Enforcement ,
EU ,
Member State ,
Multinationals ,
Sanctions ,
Strategic Enforcement Plan ,
UK ,
UK Brexit ,
UK Bribery Act ,
Warrants