ALRC review into Australia’s corporate criminal responsibility regime

Friday, 31 January 2020

On 31 January 2020, the AICD provided a submission to the Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) in response to the ALRC’s Discussion Paper on Australia’s corporate criminal responsibility regime.


While the AICD supports important elements of the proposals, including drawing a principled distinction between corporate criminal and civil liability and more effectively targeting corporate criminal liability and defences, we have material concerns around the proposed approaches to individual liability and the attribution of criminal liability to corporations.

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