Corporate Criminal Liability in Nigeria

Corporate Criminal Liability in Nigeria
Author: Linus Hussein Ali
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Business enterprises
ISBN: 9789780232511

In relation to Nigeria, this book attempts to proffer answers to the following liability questions: what rationale, if any, exists to justify the imposition of criminal liability on corporations?

Corporations and Criminal Responsibility

Corporations and Criminal Responsibility
Author: Celia Wells
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2001
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780199246199

Business corporations wield enormous economic power, and legal structures largely serve their interests. This book analyses the background to the demands to use criminal law sanctions against corporations, including demand for corporate manslaughter.

Corporate Criminal Liability

Corporate Criminal Liability
Author: Mark Pieth
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2011-04-20
Genre: Law
ISBN: 940070674X

With industrialization and globalization, corporations acquired the capacity to influence social life for good or for ill. Yet, corporations are not traditional objects of criminal law. Justified by notions of personal moral guilt, criminal norms have been judged inapplicable to fictional persons, who ‘think’ and ‘act’ through human beings. The expansion of new corporate criminal liability (CCL) laws since the mid-1990s challenges this assumption. Our volume surveys current practice on CCL in 15 civil and common law jurisdictions, exploring the legal conditions for liability, the principles and options for sanctioning, and the procedures for investigating, charging and trying corporate offenders. It considers whether municipal CCL laws are converging around the notion of ‘corporate culture’, and, in any case, the implications of CCL for those charged with keeping corporations, and other legal entities, out of trouble.

Modern Bribery Law

Modern Bribery Law
Author: Jeremy Horder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2013-04-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 110735496X

The Bribery Act 2010 is the most significant reform of UK bribery law in a century. This critical analysis offers an explanation of the Act, makes comparisons with similar legislation in other jurisdictions and provides a critical commentary, from both a UK and a US perspective, on the collapse of the distinction between public and private sector bribery. Drawing on their academic and practical experience, the contributors also analyse the prospects for enforcement and the difficulties facing lawyers seeking asset recovery following the laundering of the proceeds of bribery. International perspectives are provided via comparisons with the law in Spain, Hong Kong, the USA and Italy, together with broader analysis of the application of the law in relation to EU anti-corruption initiatives, international development and the arms trade.

The Price of Oil

The Price of Oil
Author: Bronwen Manby
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1999
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781564322258

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Corporations, Accountability and International Criminal Law

Corporations, Accountability and International Criminal Law
Author: J. Kyriakakis
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-12-28
Genre:
ISBN: 9780857939494

This timely book explores the prospect of prosecuting corporations or individuals within the business world for conduct amounting to international crime. Joanna Kyriakakis surveys the state of the art in the field, highlighting the case for the international criminal justice project to engage more fully with the role industry can play in atrocity. From the post World War II era to contemporary international criminal courts and tribunals and the activities of domestic criminal justice agencies, this book analyses cases and international law reform efforts aimed at accounting for business involvement in international crimes. The major debates and ensuing challenges are examined, arguing that corporate accountability under international criminal law is crucial in achieving the objectives of international criminal justice. Students, practitioners and academics of international criminal law will find this a beneficial read, particularly through its engagement with the key contemporary debate around the extension of international criminal law to business actors. The exploration of how to address the global governance gap and better account for human rights abuses in transnational corporate activity will also make this an invigorating book for business and human rights scholars.

Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry (Routledge Revivals)

Corporate Crime in the Pharmaceutical Industry (Routledge Revivals)
Author: John Braithwaite
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 451
Release: 2013-10-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135072906

First published in 1984, this book examines corporate crime in the pharmaceutical industry. Based on extensive research, including interviews with 131 senior executives of pharmaceutical companies in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Mexico and Guatemala, the book is a major study of white-collar crime. Written in the 1980s, it covers topics such as international bribery and corruption, fraud in the testing of drugs and criminal negligence in the unsafe manufacturing of drugs. The author considers the implications of his findings for a range of strategies to control corporate crime, nationally and internationally.