Proposals in the new UK Crime and Policing Bill 2025, which is currently passing through Parliament, advance this trend further, creating criminal liability risk for corporate persons worldwide.

“Many of these regulatory crimes are ‘strict liability’ offenses, meaning that citizens need not have a guilty mental state to be convicted of a crime,” Trump notes. “This status quo is ...

“Many of these regulatory crimes are ‘strict liability’ offenses, meaning that citizens need not have a guilty mental state to be convicted of a crime,” Trump notes. “This status quo is ...

Section 333(a)(1) of the FDCA, the misdemeanor provision, is noteworthy because it creates one of the few true strict liability crimes in federal criminal law. That is, ...

On the other hand, strict liability crimes are crimes where an accused is found guilty simply based on whether or not the prohibited activity occurred. They are typically rare or disfavored for their ...

Strict liability is also called absolute liability. It is a legal doctrine that says a defendant’s intent doesn’t matter in determining if they should be held accountable for a crime he ...

TfL said physical copies of the FAQ document were sent directly to defendants with the “strict liability” claim between 2017 and April 2019, when more than 30,000 people were convicted of bus ...

Normal, less strict liability rules typically require some finding of intent, or at least of negligence, by the party responsible for the harm in order for a court to award damages.

“Under strict liability, you would internalize risks and take precautions that courts don’t have any chance of glomming on to,” he told me. The world would become a safer place.

The foundation of U.S. corporate criminal liability can be traced to the U.S. Supreme Court's 1909 decision in New York Central & Hudson River Railroad v. United States (212 U.S. 481 (1909)).