Corporate criminal liability refers to how companies can be prosecuted for crime. Incentivising companies to comply with the law is key to deterring corruption and money-laundering. We advocate that both companies and the senior executives who oversee their activities need to face criminal investigation and sanction where egregious corporate wrongdoing occurs.
We assess how companies and senior executives are being held to account under the UK’s economic crime laws to ensure that the laws apply fairly. We also undertake in-depth research into how the corporate liability regime affects implementation of the UK’s anti-corruption laws.
Today, veteran economic crime campaigner Margaret Hodge MP put forward some bold and crucial amendments to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill currently going through Parliament to dramatically improve...
Parliamentary briefing on adding an ammendment to the Financial Services Bill to create a new corporate criminal offence for facilitating or failing to prevent economic crime
