This thesis sees the legal nature of the existing corporation punishment regulations as the negligence responsibility, and prepares a concrete and firm standard in order to judge the considerable caution and supervision of a corporate with the method ...
This thesis sees the legal nature of the existing corporation punishment regulations as the negligence responsibility, and prepares a concrete and firm standard in order to judge the considerable caution and supervision of a corporate with the method to ensure the effectiveness.
For the judgmental standard, I suggest the corporate compliance program which is developed in the U.S. and worked as a rule of criminal case.―The program is also used in Korea as a judgmental standard that is to lay a fine when a company breaks a rule of fair trade of the business activity. Moreover I examine whether this program could be a judgmental standard of the directoral care duty. The results are listed below.
Firstly, it seems that the corporation has acquitted itself of its caution responsibility by practicing the compliance program. In other words, if the corporation implements a preventive measure to prevent such an involved illegality to Business Activities, it could be told that the corporate implements the responsibility to foreknow its illegality act and avoid its results.
Secondly, the hostile elements which is for the absolute judgment standard toward whether a corporate violated a supervision's caution or not are, in the compliance program's components, ① whether a compliance manager is or not; ② whether there is an effective compliance education or not; ③ whether a compliance manual is or not; ④ whether there is a sanction system or not; and ⑤ whether there is an observation to watch the illegal violence or not. The court, through this components, should judge whether a corporate being based on the compliance program implements a considerable caution and supervision in order to prevent the illegal activities of employees or not
Thirdly, in this context, using the above judgmental components and indexes, I see the matter of whether the corporation do the considerable caution and supervision in order to prevent the illegal activities of employees or not.
Consequently, I find that the court simply acknowledge a case because there is a 'compliance education' as a judgemental component, and, on the contrary, does not acknowledge a case because a corporate did not practically observes the illegal activities of employees. However, I could say that, in this case, it does not seem to be reasonable that a monthly compliance education simply is regarded as a judgmental indexed, and so this is not an appropriate judgment. In my opinion, the court with the compliance program carries out its duty of whether the corporation do to prevent the illegal activities of employees or not through a supervision's caution of responsibility.
So the corporation could effectively take a precaution of the illegal activities of employees and the infringement which is caused by those activities. Moreover, this will be connected to the fact that a criminal restrict toward the crime accompanied by corporate activities as a effectiveness of the penalty against employer and employee can be established. In the perspective of the responsibility principle in the criminal law, the corporation does not have to undertake a vicarious responsibility without a negligence but the self-corporation's negligence responsibility, and so actually accomplish the responsibility principle in the criminal law in a criminal penalty toward the corporation.