Due to loopholes that remain despite recent reforms to corporate criminal law in the UK, University of Surrey academics are calling for a new legal approach that could hold companies accountable for economic crimes, even when no single employee possesses the complete mental state required for a conviction.
Courts in UK may permit companies to be convicted of crimes even when no individual employee is criminally liable
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