CRIMINAL LIABILITY OF LEGAL PERSONS –CONDITIONS AND LIMITS

Abstract

There are large social changes in the last few decades that affected some very old legal principles. One of them is the principle Societas delinquere non potest. That process was caused by the tendency of growing power of companies and appearance of new corporation forms. Using the comparative approach the author considers the reforming wave of criminal legislations all over the Europe with intention of establishing criminal liability of legal persons that already existed in the Common law system.