| Abstract [eng] |
In 2000, the Republic of Lithuania adopted the new Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes, which have established a criminal liability of legal persons. Various problems of corporate criminal liability are already considered in a number of monographs and scientific articles. However the procedural aspects of this issue remain only fragmentary mentioned in textbooks of criminal proceedings and a few legal acts. A rapidly growing criminal prosecution of legal persons in the past two years and the laconic regulation of this issue led to the closer look at the criminal procedure course against legal persons, it’s characteristics. As a consequence, the potential difficulties and problems arising in practice of investigating this category of cases, examining them in court, the conviction and execution, were raised. For the criminal prosecution of legal persons proceedings are applied general rules of criminal proceedings, but the specific responsibility of the entity causes certain specific procedural exceptions. The paper will examine these special regulations, comparing them with the characteristics of the criminal process against natural persons. |
