On 13 January, the UK Ministry of Justice issued a Call for Evidence on the reform of corporate criminal liability for economic crime. This follows statements by the UK government in 2016 about ...

Last Thursday, the government publicised its intention to use the Economic Crime Bill to significantly expand corporate criminal liability through reform of the ‘identification doctrine’. This is the ...

Workplace accidents often involve criminal liability. Ordinarily, you can’t sue co-workers for damages. However, you can file workers’ compensation claims to recover medical expenses, medical bills, ...

The full text of this note can be found in PDF form here. Criminal liability based on a failure to act, otherwise known as an omission, first requires a duty to act. Yet, when the criminal statute ...