Law Commission consultation on corporate criminal liability

This is a public consultation by the Law Commission for England and Wales. This project concerns the criminal liability of legal persons, such as companies and limited liability partnerships. At present such legal persons usually may only be convicted of a criminal offence if it is an offence without any fault element, sometimes known as a “strict liability” offence, or because an individual or group of individuals who are very senior within the organisation has the necessary fault element. We are asking whether the law should be reformed in this regard. We also ask a series of related questions about the criminal liability of corporations for economic crime, and about the individual liability of directors and senior managers for offences committed by corporations. For more information about this project, click here . We recommend that consultees read the discussion paper before responding to the consultation. Consultees do n