Article 46C of the Malabo Protocol: A Contextually Tailored Approach to Corporate Criminal Liability and Its Contours

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-248
Author(s):  
Taygeti Michalakea
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
The Future ◽  
Tailored Approach ◽  
Corporate Criminal Liability ◽  
Corporate Wrongdoing

This article examines the corporate criminal liability provision of the Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights (Malabo Protocol), which is the first to grant an international or regional criminal court jurisdiction over corporations. It analyses the provision in light of the wide substantial jurisdiction of the future criminal law section of the African Court of Justice and Human and Peoples’ Rights, the complementarity provision, the modes of responsibility and demonstrates its strengths and weaknesses. It argues that the corporate criminal liability provision will particularly contribute to a regional quest for justice and accountability against corporate impunity, as it is contextually tailored but also well equipped to address corporate wrongdoing.

Addressing Human Rights Concerns in the Extractive Resource Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa using the Lens of Article 46 (C) of the Malabo Protocol

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 843-878 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oyeniyi Abe ◽  
Ada Ordor
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
Court Of Justice ◽  
Resource Industry ◽  
Guiding Principles ◽  
Corporate Criminal Liability

Abstract In June 2014, the African Union, Heads of States and Government adopted the Protocol on Amendments to the Protocol on the Statute of the African Court of Justice and Human Rights (known in short as the Malabo Protocol). If ratified, the Protocol would expand the jurisdiction of the proposed African Court of Justice and Human Rights to adjudicate matters of corporate criminal liability in Africa. This paper analyses the prospects of advancing corporate respect for human rights and access to judicial remedies by victims of corporate human rights abuse through the lens of Article 46 (C) of the Malabo Protocol. The departure point is that the adoption and ratification of the Protocol would be an important step in preventing or stopping human rights violations by corporate actors in Africa’s extractive resource industry. This position is predicated on the inference that the expanded jurisdiction provided by the Malabo Protocol is consistent with the commitment of African countries to implement Pillar II of the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (Guiding Principles) on respect for human rights by corporate entities. In addition, the Malabo Protocol’s proposal to adjudicate corporate criminal liability is consistent with Pillar III of the Guiding Principles on the provision of remedies for human rights violations. Creating a regional approach to address corporate criminality is an important African solution to a pressing African problem.

The Place of the African Criminal Court in the Prosecution of Serious Crimes in Africa

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Chernor Jalloh
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
Crimes Against Humanity ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Crimes ◽  
Corporate Criminal Liability

In June 2014, the African Union adopted the first treaty that would establish an unprecedented regional court with a combined jurisdiction over criminal, human rights, and general matters. The protocol introduced various innovations by, for instance, advancing expanded definitions of core international crimes such as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes; providing for corporate criminal liability; and prohibiting the dumping of hazardous waste into the environment. The AU’s new treaty was concluded in the shadow of tensions between the International Criminal Court (ICC) and some African states and raises theoretical, legal, and policy issues with serious implications for regional and international law. This chapter draws on the lessons of international human rights law to explore the likely impact of the new tribunal on the present and future of international criminal law enforcement globally, especially given the recent purported withdrawals of Burundi, The Gambia, and South Africa from the Rome Statute establishing the ICC.

scholarly journals Formulation Policy Regarding the Smuggling of Lobster Seeds in Indonesia

Lentera Hukum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Ayu Izza Elvany
Keyword(s):  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Legal Problem ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Penal Policy ◽  
Illegal Fishing ◽  
Corporate Criminal Liability

This paper analyzes how formulation policy of lobster seeds smuggling regulated in Indonesian law to optimize the effectiveness of illegal fishing enforcement, considering penal policy is the basis of criminal law operationalization. This research uses both statute approach and conceptual approach as legal research methods to analyze the issued legal problem. Fishery law in Indonesia regulated in Law No. 45 of 2009 amending Law No. 31 of 2004 concerning Fishery, especially Articles 88 and 16 paragraph (1) which cover the formulation policy of lobster seeds smuggling enforcement. This study will be analyzed into three aspects which are the conduct (the criminal offense), criminal liability, and sentencing system. The result shows that law enforcement regarding the smuggling of lobster seeds in Indonesia is ineffective due to the nonexistence of corporate criminal liability in the fishery law and its sentencing system is lack of both the specific minimum penalty regulation and the penal measures as criminal punishment. However, the draft of the fishery law has already set corporate criminal liability; hence it also regulates the penal measures, in the form of secondary sanctions. Nevertheless, instead of enacting the specific minimum penalty, the draft only determined the maximum penalty as well. Keywords: Formulation Policy, Fishery Law, Lobster Seeds Smuggling.

scholarly journals CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY IN INDONESIA ON THE PERSPECTIVE OF COMPARISON

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-154
Author(s):  
Muchammad Chasani
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Justice System ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Criminal Offense ◽  
Criminal Legislation ◽  
Corporate Criminal Liability ◽  
Responsibility System

The regulation of corporate criminal liability in Indonesia's criminal justice system is basically a new and still debatable issue. It is said that because in the Criminal Code is not recognized and regulated explicitly about the corporation as a subject of criminal law. This is a natural thing since the WvS Criminal Code still adheres to the principle of "societas delinquere non potest" or "non-potest university delinquere", that is, a legal entity can not commit a crime. Thus, if in a society there is a criminal offense, then the criminal act is deemed to be done by the board of the corporation concerned. Regarding the corporate criminal responsibility system in Indonesia, in the corruption law Article 20 paragraph (1), if the corporation committed a criminal act of corruption, then those responsible for the criminal act shall be the corporation only, the management only, or the corporation and its management. Thus, it can be said that the regulation of corporate criminal liability in the legal system in Indonesia is expressly only regulated in special criminal legislation, because the Criminal Code of WvS still adheres to the principle of "societas delinquere nonpotest" so it is not possible to enforce corporate criminal liability in it.

To Withdraw or Not to Withdraw: A Structural Analysis of the Scope and Limits of Voluntary Withdrawal of Criminal Attempt in the Rome Statute

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 1167-1192
Author(s):  
Igor Vuletić
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Law ◽  
Rome Statute ◽  
International Criminal ◽  
International Crime ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Court ◽  
International Criminal Law ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Voluntary Withdrawal ◽  
Subjective Conception

Abstract Voluntary withdrawal of criminal attempt is one of the fundamental institutes of the general part of criminal law, originally codified in international criminal law in the Rome Statute. Since the Statute attributed significant legal effects to withdrawal, which excludes the liability for criminal attempt, it is important to establish a clear understanding on its scope and limitations. This article analyses controversial issues related to the legal nature of withdrawal as grounds for exclusion of criminal liability, withdrawal of individual offenders and accomplices, and provides interpretations on potential solutions for these issues. The analysis is based on the subjective conception of withdrawal, under which its essence lays in the rejection of the initial criminal intent, while taking into consideration withdrawal in the context of international crime. Based on the analysis, an original three-level test for the determination of withdrawal in the future practice of the International Criminal Court, (icc) is proposed.

4. Negligence and strict liability

2021 ◽  
pp. 126-150
Author(s):  
Michael J. Allen ◽  
Ian Edwards
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Strict Liability ◽  
European Convention ◽  
Mens Rea ◽  
The Law ◽  
Sexual Services

Course-focused and contextual, Criminal Law provides a succinct overview of the key areas on the law curriculum balanced with thought-provoking contextual discussion. This chapter discusses the meaning of negligence, arguments for and against negligence as a basis for criminal liability, the meaning of strict liability, the origins of and justifications for strict liability, the presumption of mens rea in offences of strict liability, defences to strict liability, and strict liability and the European Convention on Human Rights. The feaeture ‘The law in context’ examines critically the use of strict liability as the basis for liability in the offence of paying for the sexual services of a person who has been subject to exploitation.

GÄFGEN V. GERMANY. CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-235
Author(s):  
KRYSTYNA PATORA ◽  
EMIL ŚWIĄDER
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Proceedings ◽  
The Law

The article focuses on the case of Gäfgen v. Germany, which con-cerns the restrictions imposed on police offi cers who work on cases involving terror and violence posing a risk to human life, and on the ones who have to make decisions protecting victims’ lives. The choice of measures serving the protection of the highest value, i.e. human life, is not easy. At the same time, police offi cers are assessed in terms of criminal law as regards the protection of the basic human rights enjoyed by perpetrators who pose a risk to other people’s lives. The case of Gäfgen v. Germany regards the choice of values, and the criminal liability of police offi cers, connected with thereof, as well as the problem of the admissibility of evidence obtained in breach of the law in criminal proceedings, and the limitations of the fruit of the poisonous tree doctrine.

scholarly journals Criminal Enforcement Law Policy for Corporate

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dinh Thi Mai
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Law Enforcement ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Enforcement Policy ◽  
Corporate Criminal Liability ◽  
Enforcement Policies ◽  
Legal Entities

Corporate criminal liability remain a very new issue for Vietnam's criminal justice background. Criminal judgment execution and criminal enforcement policy for corporate in Vietnam are still in the process of formulating and forming policies. Therefore, in this article, we study and discuss four factors that are considered the main pillars of criminal law enforcement policies for criminal, including: (1) Impact object of criminal law enforcement policy on corporate; (2) Object of criminal law enforcement policy for corporate; (3) Subjects of criminal law enforcement policies for corporate legal entities; (4) Forms and measures of criminal law enforcement policy for corporate. Keywords: Criminal law enforcement policy; corporate criminal; impact object; object; subject; form and measure of policy. References: Đỗ Đức Hồng Hà (2019). Nhận diện pháp nhân thương mại trong Luật Thi hành án hình sự (sửa đổi). Hội thảo khoa học về Chính sách pháp luật thi hành án hình sự: Những vấn đề lý luận và thực tiễn cấp bách, Học viện Khoa học xã hội, tháng 4 năm 2019.[2] Đinh Thị Mai (2019). Các yếu tố tác động tới chính sách pháp luật thi hành án hình sự đối với pháp nhân thương mại phạm tội. Hội thảo khoa học Chính sách pháp luật thi hành án hình sự: Những vấn đề lý luận và thực tiễn cấp bách, Học viện Khoa học xã hội, tháng 4 năm 2019.[3] Ngô Đức Minh (2019). Trình tự, thủ tục thi hành án và các biện pháp bảo đảm thi hành án cấm kinh doanh, cấm hoạt động trong một số lĩnh vực đối với pháp nhân thương mại. Phiên tọa đàm về thi hành án hình sự đối với pháp nhân thương mại, ngày 28/2-01/3/2019, Ủy ban tư pháp của Quốc hội.[4] Đậu Anh Tuấn (2019). Cơ quan quản lý nhà nước lĩnh vực hoạt động của pháp nhân thương mại và xác định trách nhiệm của cơ quan quản lý nhà nước trong thi hành án đối với pháp nhân thương mại. Phiên tọa đàm về thi hành án hình sự đối với pháp nhân thương mại, ngày 28/2-01/3/2019, Ủy ban tư pháp của Quốc hội.[5] Quốc hội (2015). Bộ luật Dân sự năm 2015.[6] Quốc hội (2014). Luật Doanh nghiệp năm 2014.[7] Văn phòng Quốc hội (2013). Văn bản hợp nhất Luật Chứng khoán số 27/VBHN-VPQH ngày 18 tháng 12 năm 2013. [8] Văn phòng Quốc hội (2013). Văn bản hợp nhất Luật Kinh doanh bảo hiểm số 12/VBHN-VPQH ngày 23 tháng 7 năm 2013. [9] Văn phòng Quốc hội (2018). Văn bản hợp nhất Luật Đầu tư số 06/VBHN-VPQH ngày 29 tháng 6 năm 2018.  

scholarly journals Criminal Responsibility for Juvenile Offenders in Criminal Law

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Trinh Thi Yen ◽  
Le Cam
Keyword(s):  
Juvenile Offenders ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Criminal Responsibility ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
Criminal Records ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
The Future ◽  
Release From Prison

The article mentions the scientific analysis of the main rules on criminal liability for juveniles in the current Vietnamese criminal law and through it, in terms of continuing to improve some regulations. related violations in the Criminal Code 2015 (due to lack of) proposed a number of specific legislative interpretations of 04 new laws relating to criminal liability for unemployment in the draft of the future Criminal Code after France Fourth classicization. Keywords: Criminal responsibility of juvenile offenders, principles for handling juvenile offenders, penalties for convicted juveniles, handle navigation, release from prison ahead of time, erase criminal records. References: [1] Bộ Luật Hình sự năm 2015, NXB Chính trị Quốc Gia Sự Thật, Hà Nội, 2016, tr.80.[2] Bộ Luật Hình sự năm 2015, sửa đổi bổ sung năm 2017, Nxb Chính trị Quốc Gia Sự Thật, Hà Nội, 2017, tr.75-76.[3] Lê Văn Cảm (biên soạn), Sách chuyên khảo: Nhận thức khoa học Phần chung pháp luật hình sự Việt Nam sau pháp điển hóa lần thứ ba, Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội, Hà Nội, 2018, tr.281-299.[4] Lê Văn Cảm (chủ biên), Sách chuyên khảo: Pháp luật hình sự Việt Nam từ thế kỷ X đến nay - Lịch sử và thực tại, NXB Đại học Quốc gia Hà Nội, Hà Nội, 2018, tr.564-600.

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