Corporate Criminal Liability Book

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' disqualificationExplores the 'doctrine of identification' and special rules of attribution fixing a corporation with liability for crimesExplains 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 costsContains 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 offencesProvides a practical guide to corporate 'best practice' Provides a guide to Corporate Manslaughter Act 2008 and considers Sentencing GuidelinesFully analyses the impact of the Bribery Act Provides dedicated chapters on Companies and Insolvency Act offencesDiscusses investigative powers, self-incrimination and 'derivative use'Updates law on Fraudulent Trading and False Accounting Discusses the important issue of corporations and Human RightsOffers practical guidance on sentencing principles and practice relating to companies Details consideration of regulatory offences and defencesRead More