Criminal Compliance Program as a Tool for Criminal Liability Exculpation of Legal Persons in the Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/12/2/20" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2075-471X/12/2/20</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/laws12020020" target="_blank" >10.3390/laws12020020</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Criminal Compliance Program as a Tool for Criminal Liability Exculpation of Legal Persons in the Czech Republic

Original language description

Criminal liability of legal entities has gained an inalienable place in the system of legal liability in most European jurisdictions, including the Czech Republic. Departing from the premise that it is a suitable supplement to the liability of a legal entity in the event of serious unlawful acts of natural persons from which the legal entity benefits, this article aims to characterize the position and role of this form of liability in the Czech legal system. Essentially, however, it seeks to determine under which circumstances it is possible for legal entities to be relieved of liability using an exculpatory clause. Based on a case study of the Czech Republic, it illustrates the added value of criminal compliance programs, which, if properly set up and implemented in practice and complemented by prevention, detection and response measures, play a decisive role in establishing such criminal exculpation. The article further finds that rules pertaining to ethical codes of conduct are in fact ‘elevated’ to the level of legal rules through compliance programs. Compliance, one of the components of Corporate Social Responsibility, thus becomes an expression of a legal obligation, i.e., the obligation to properly manage and control the corporation, which has important legal implications.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50501 - Law

Project

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Continuities

N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Laws

ISSN

2075-471X

e-ISSN

2075-471X

Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000977471500001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85153729212