The TC Beirne School of Law research seminar: Containing Corporate Crime: Civil or Criminal Controls?

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Date:	Friday, 06 November 2009
Time:	12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room:	Sir Samuel Griffith Room, 1-W341, Level 3
UQ Location:	Forgan Smith Building (St Lucia)
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Description:	Professor Celia Wells, The University of Bristol presents: `Containing Corporate Crime: Civil or Criminal Controls?` ABSTRACT Should criminal law accommodate the corporation and if so how? This question has been taxing lawyers for well over a century. When it was first asked the business corporation was a much less sophisticated instrument than now and played a less central role in national and global economies. Nonetheless the legal adaptation has not kept pace. The variety in corporate form, reach and activity taken together with the extensive range of criminal laws require a flexible response in terms of corporate liability models. ABOUT THE SPEAKER Celia Wells graduated from Warwick University in 1971 and took a Masters in Law at London University in 1973. She held posts at Newcastle upon Tyne, Cardiff and Durham Universities before joining Bristol as Professor of Criminal Law in January 2009. She was awarded the OBE for services to legal education in 2006 and was President of the Society of Legal Scholars of Great Britain and Ireland in 2006-7. She was Chair of the law panel for RAE 2008 (Research Assessment Exercise) and is a member of the Bar Standards Board Education and Training Committee. Celia’s research is mainly in criminal law with a particular specialism in corporate criminal liability. She is the author of Corporations and Criminal Responsibility (2nd edition OUP 2001) and of Reconstructing Criminal Law (with Nicola Lacey and Oliver Quick, 4th edition in press, Cambridge University Press). She has provided expert advice on corporate criminal responsibility to a number of national and international bodies including: OECD Bribery Convention Working Group; the CPS in relation to the Ladbroke Grove rail crash; Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee Inquiry into the Draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill (2005); and the International Commission of Jurists’ Expert Legal Panel on Corporate Complicity in International Crimes (2006). The evidence she gave to the Joint Scrutiny Committee on the draft Bribery Bill 2009 led to a recommendation to tighten the corporate provisions. - All welcome, no RSVP required - Further information available at:
URL:	http://www.law.uq.edu.au/2009-program
Event Category:	Diversity-Week / Other events / Public lectures / Alumni / Seminars & workshops / Teaching & Learning Week /
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Name:	Ms Tina Vasiljevic
Phone:	(07) 3346 9350
Email:	research@uq.edu.au
Org. Unit:	Law
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