Keyword: company law

Criminals, Corporate Criminals and Criminal Corporations

Picture: Public Citizen Glenn Ashton - In order to prevent criminal behaviour we are quite correctly forbidden to purchase goods which are suspected to be stolen or to be associated with criminal conduct. While an individual failure to heed this basic tenet of the law can result in personal conviction, a collective failure to observe it leads inevitably to a breakdown in both the rule of law and social order.  Modern commercial law has given similar legal status and rights to both individuals and corporations. People and...