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Corporate Deaths: Accident or Crime? - Does the UK have adequate law to hold corporations liable for corporate death?
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Dissertation Proposal: Student No.: 00654442 LLB - P/T - 3 Part 1: Corporate Deaths: Accident or Crime? - Does the UK have adequate law to hold corporations liable for corporate death? A series of fatal incidents and disasters has given rise to an increasing perception that deaths resulting from gross negligence in the exercise of business activities comprise a category of unlawful conduct which has been neglected by the legal system1. No longer are these disasters seen as accidents, they are viewed as foreseeable and preventable. Companies are seen to be culpable and there is a desire to transmute moral blameworthiness into criminal liability. However, there are many impediments to the criminalisation of corporate misconduct. Initial problem that is faced automatically revolved around a lack of consensus upon the correct way in which who to prosecute: a company or an individual? As the law stand it places too much emphasis on the identification doctrine: a company...
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