Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly

Edited by Professor Francis D Rose

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CORPORATE CRIMINAL LIABILITY AND CONSUMER PROTECTION

R. v. Warwickshire C.C., ex p. Johnson

Modern consumer protection statutes increasingly deploy criminal sanctions against businesses which infringe regulations relating to trade descriptions and price indications, thereby causing economic loss to consumers. There has been much debate regarding the efficacy and appropriateness of the criminal law in the commercial context1 and there have been calls for the decriminalization of many

1. See in particular Anon., “Developments in the Law—Corporate Crime: Regulating Corporate Behavior Through Criminal Sanctions” (1979) 92 Harv. L.Rev. 1227; Genevra Richardson, “Strict Liability for Regulatory Crime: the Empirical Research” [1987] Crim. L.R. 295; Jeremy Rowan-Robinson, Paul Q. Watchman and C. R. Barker, “Crime and Regulation” [1988] Crim. L.R. 211.

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