Courts in UK may permit companies to be convicted of crimes even when no individual employee is criminally liable

Courts in UK may permit companies to be convicted of crimes even when no individual employee is criminally liable

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Due to loopholes that remain despite recent reforms to corporate criminal law in the UK, University of Surrey academics are calling for a new legal approach that could hold companies accountable for economic crimes, even when no single employee possesses the complete mental state required for a conviction. In cases where … Read more