Corporate criminal liability: officers and companies may be prosecuted where offences involved consent, connivance or attributable negligence. Section 77 imposes parallel liability: the company and any person in charge of or responsible for its business may be proceeded against for offences ... Summary
Corporate criminal liability: officers and companies may be prosecuted where offences involved consent, connivance or attributable negligence.
Section 77 imposes parallel liability: the company and any person in charge of or responsible for its business may be proceeded against for offences committed while that person controlled the company. An officer is deemed guilty and liable where the offence was committed with the officer's consent or connivance or is attributable to the officer's negligence.
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