Corporate Prosecutions – on Some Relevant Issues Related to the Criminal Procedural Status of Legal Entities
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https://doi.org/10.22364/jull.15.02Keywords:
corporate criminal liability, corporate prosecutions, procedural coercive measures, legal entities and “human rights”Abstract
The article is dedicated to the issues related to corporate prosecution, which the authors see as relevant. The two main lines explored herein are the applicability of human rights to legal entities and the possibility of using procedural (preventive, security coercive measures during the proceedings. The outcomes of researching the currently valid regulatory enactments and those that have become void, examples of law application and theoretical sources are used to present the authors’ perspective on the most important aspects of the respective issues, problems are foregrounded and proposals are advanced to facilitate further discussion.
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