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Matti Tolvanen Trust, Business Ethics and Crime Prevention - Corporate Criminal Liability in Finland

Jurisprudencija, 2009-01 (1) [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Matti Tolvanen Trust, Business Ethics and Crime Prevention - Corporate Criminal Liability in Finland
Is Part Of: Jurisprudencija, 2009-01 (1)
Description: According to the Finnish Penal Code a corporation may be sentenced to a corporate fine if a person who is part of its statutory organ or other management or who exercises actual decision-making authority therein 1) has been an accomplice in an offence or allowed the commission of the offence, or 2) if the care and diligence necessary for the prevention of the offence has not been observed in the operations of the corporation. Criminal liability of legal persons is based on the intentional or negligent acts of individuals who are in a certain relationship with the corporation. The Finnish legal doctrine clearly rejects the identification theory according to which an individual is considered as acting not for a company but as a company. According to Finnish scholarly writings, the acts of an individual offender could be attributed to the legal person under certain conditions not as acts of the legal person but as acts of the individual for the company. Nonetheless, Finnish law does not abandon the fault requirement. In this respect, Finnish law differs from the traditional common law theory of vicarious liability.
Publisher: Vilnius: Mykolas Romeris University
Language: English;Lithuanian
Identifier: ISSN: 1392-6195
EISSN: 2029-2058
Source: ProQuest Central

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