The millennium bug and corporate criminal liability

Wells, Celia 1999. The millennium bug and corporate criminal liability. Journal of Information Law and Technology (2)

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Abstract

The end of the century offers an opportunity to reflect on legal responses to changes in social and economic organisation. Increasing reliance on sophisticated technology, the developing popular vocabulary of risk, and attempts to deploy the resources of criminal law against business enterprises are some of the manifestations of those changes. This paper argues that the debate about potential criminal liability for 'Millennium Bug' disasters captures these key features of contemporary life. After discussing the broad theoretical framework of disaster and risk, the paper moves to a detailed analysis of recent developments in corporate criminal liability in England and Wales, and in other jurisdictions.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Law
Subjects:	K Law > K Law (General)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Attribution; corporations; manslaughter; risk society.
ISSN:	1361-4169
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Last Modified:	12 Feb 2016 23:32
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/67101

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