| 词条 | Corporate manslaughter |
| 释义 |
Corporate manslaughter is a crime in several jurisdictions, including England and Wales and Hong Kong.[1] It enables a corporation to be punished and censured for culpable conduct that leads to a person's death. This extends beyond any compensation that might be awarded in civil litigation or any criminal prosecution of an individual (including an employee or contractor). The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into effect in the UK on 6 April 2008. TheoryClarkson identifies six theories of corporate manslaughter:[2]
Identification doctrineThis approach holds that the offence of corporate manslaughter is made out when an individual commits all the elements of the offence of manslaughter and that person is sufficiently senior to be seen as the controlling mind of the corporation. Prior to the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, this is how the law applied in England and Wales.[2] Aggregation doctrineThis approach, known in the U.S. as the collective knowledge doctrine, aggregates all the acts and mental elements of various company employees and finds the offence if all the elements of manslaughter are made out, though not necessarily within a single controlling mind. This approach is used in the U.S. but has been rejected in England and Wales.[2] Reactive corporate faultThis idea was proposed by Fisse and Braithwaite.[2] They proposed that where an individual had committed the actus reus of manslaughter, a court should have the power to order the employing corporation to institute measures to prevent further recurrence and should face criminal prosecution should they fail to do so.[2] Vicarious liabilityThe broader principle of vicarious liability (respondeat superior in the U.S.) is often invoked to establish corporate manslaughter. In the U.S., where an employee commits a crime within the sphere of his employment and with the intention of benefitting the corporation, his criminality can be imputed to the company. The principle has sometimes been used in England and Wales for strict liability offences concerning regulatory matters but the exact law is unclear.[2] Management failure modelThis is the approach to be taken under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 which came into force in the UK in April 2008. Where a corporation's activities cause a person's death and the failure was because of a breach that falls far below what can reasonably be expected of the organisation in the circumstances, the offence is made out.[2] Corporate mens reaA further approach is to accept the legal fiction of corporate personality and to extend it to the possibility of a corporate mens rea, to be found in corporate practices and policies.[2] This approach has been widely advocated in the U.S., as the corporate ethos standard[3] and introduced in Australia in 1995.[4] Support and criticism of the conceptClarkson identifies four valuable characteristics of criminal prosecution:[2]
However, the existence of such a crime has been criticised, especially from the point of view of law and economics which argues that civil damages are a more appropriate means of compensation, recognition of the loss suffered and deterrence.[5] Such arguments emphasise that, because the civil courts award compensation commensurate with the damage done, they apply the appropriate level of deterrence.[6] {{quotation | ... pursuing corporate criminal liability results in society bearing the higher sanctioning costs of stigma penalties and the increased costs of deterring corporate misbehaviour created by the procedural protections of criminal law. | Khanna (1996) p.1533 }}Again, such arguments contend that "over-deterrence" may divert resources from other socially beneficial activities.[7] {{quotation | ... when the penalty exceeds the social harm, the problem of socially excessive product prices and litigation costs again arises. | Fischel & Sykes (1996), p.325 }}A further strand of criticism holds that only individuals can commit crimes.[8] Further, it is individuals who feel the threat of deterrence. In England in 1994, OLL Ltd were convicted of corporate manslaughter over the Lyme Bay kayaking tragedy and fined £60,000 while Peter Kite, one of the company's directors, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment, arguably a greater influence on the conduct of company managers.[5][9] Further, a corporation may simply be a "veil" for an individual's activities, easily liquidated and with no reputation to protect.[5] Again it is argued, company fines ultimately punish shareholders, customers and employees in general, rather than culpable managers.[5] By jurisdictionUnited Kingdom
AustraliaThe Australian Capital Territory recognises the crime of Industrial manslaughter. CanadaIn Canada Bill C-45 was enacted as a response to the Westray Mine explosion that killed twenty-six miners in 1992. The Bill added a new section to the Canadian Criminal Code which reads, "217.1 Every one who undertakes, or has the authority, to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any other person, arising from that work or task." [10] New ZealandIn 2012, proposals were put forward in the New Zealand Parliament for a corporate manslaughter statute, in the wake of the CTV building collapse during the 2011 Canterbury earthquake,[11] and the Pike River Mine disaster.[12] As of March 2015 Labour Party leader Andrew Little had a private member's bill in the ballot that would, if passed, add a charge of corporate manslaughter to the Crimes Act 1961.[13] United StatesIn the U.S. there is currently no corporate manslaughter law. However, there have been numerous calls in the literature for a "corporate death penalty".[14][15][16][17] Most recently a study argued that industries that kill more people each year than they employ should have an industry-wide corporate death penalty.[18] References1. ^Jackson, Michael (2003), [https://books.google.com/books?id=A9MunPbB_0MC&pg=PA400&lpg=PA400&dq=hong+kong+manslaughter+company&source=bl&ots=7zhzRXynew&sig=ktkOL9Rmw8kpCsL7HcREww09e4E&hl=zh-TW&ei=-2Q4TPGtGM-LkAWojtWsAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAQ Criminal law in Hong Kong, p.400], Hong Kong University Press. 2. ^Fisse (1983), Fisse & Braithwaite (1988, 1994) 3. ^Ragozino (1995) 4. ^Rose (1995) 5. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Clarkson (1998) 6. ^Khanna (1996) 7. ^Fischel & Sykes (1996) 8. ^Meridian Global Funds Management Asia Ltd v. Securities Commission [1995] 2 AC 500, at 507 per Lord Hoffmann 9. ^R v. Kite and Others, The Independent, 9 December 1994 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/legisl/billc45.html|title=Bill C-45 - Overview |date=2015-03-18|publisher=Canadian Centre for Occupational Health & Safety}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/rebuilding-christchurch/8474797/Corporate-manslaughter-law-change-weighed|title=Corporate manslaughter law change weighed |author=Tracy Watkins|date=2013-03-26|publisher=Fairfax NZ}} 12. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6684847/Pike-River-hearing-told-corporate-manslaughter-charge-needed|title=Pike River hearing told corporate manslaughter charge needed|date=2012-04-03|publisher=Fairfax NZ}} 13. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/legislation/proposed-bills/51HOH_MEMBILL044_1/crimes-corporate-manslaughter-amendment-bill|title=Crimes (Corporate Manslaughter) Amendment Bill|date=2013-12-03|publisher=NZ Parliament}} 14. ^{{Cite journal|last=Markoff|first=Gabriel|date=2012-2013|title=Arthur Andersen and the Myth of the Corporate Death Penalty: Corporate Criminal Convictions in the Twenty-First Century|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/upjlel15&id=809&div=&collection=|journal=University of Pennsylvania Journal of Business Law|volume=15|pages=797}} 15. ^{{Cite journal|last=Ramirez|first=Mary Kreiner|date=2005|title=The Science Fiction of Corporate Criminal Liability: Containing the Machine through the Corporate Death Penalty|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/arz47&id=945&div=&collection=|journal=Arizona Law Review|volume=47|pages=933}} 16. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=VpysDQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PR11&dq=%22corporate+death+penalty%22&ots=mUwkHINc3w&sig=xUuax272MTihu8Y3TM345gJD_pc#v=onepage&q=%22corporate%20death%20penalty%22&f=false|title=The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty: Restoring Law and Order on Wall Street|last=Ramirez|first=Mary Kreiner|last2=Ramirez|first2=Steven A.|date=2017-01-31|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=9781479881574|language=en}} 17. ^{{Cite journal|last=Amann|first=Diane Marie|date=2000-2001|title=Capital Punishment: Corporate Criminal Liability for Gross Violations of Human Rights|url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/hasint24&id=341&div=&collection=|journal=Hastings International and Comparative Law Review|volume=24|pages=327}} 18. ^{{Cite web|url=https://bigthink.com/politics-current-affairs/corporate-death-penalty|title=Do industries that kill more people than they employ have a right to exist?|date=2019-02-24|website=Big Think|language=en|access-date=2019-03-09}} See Also
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