In English law a company may be responsible for wrongful acts or omissions in two ways. First, a corporation may be vicariously liable for the behaviour of its employees. The company, as a legal construct, is liable if employers who are natural persons would have been so liable. The acts (or...

This article advances the proposition that there is occurring a sea‐change in the sanctions imposed by courts when companies breach the criminal law. It focuses on the publication of the Law Commission's Report No. 237, ‘Legislating the Criminal Code: Involuntary Manslaughter’, of March...

If a company becomes known as a corrupt and dishonest one with the result that employees dismissed by the company's liquidators find it more difficult than they would otherwise have done to obtain fresh employment, may they claim compensation for the loss of reputation consequent on being...