Prosecution of Legal Entities: History, Theory, Practice and Proposals

Abstract

The article considers the history of the legal entities' responsibility, their responsibility in the legislation of developed countries, the general classification of legal entities of Anglo-Saxon and Romano-Germanic legal families, types of legal entities, features of the responsibility of legal entities in individual countries, the conditions for their release. Criminal law covers legal entities' liability, statutory obligations, collective responsibility issues, types of punishments applied to legal entities, and their application's specifics. Problems of legal entities liability in the criminal law of the Republic of Uzbekistan, some aspects of the inclusion of criminal liability of legal entities in the draft of the new Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the positions of supporters and opponents of legal scholars of Uzbekistan on the criminal liability of legal entities, the validity of these provisions from the point of view of the theory of criminal law and legislation Of the Republic of Uzbekistan, the alleged areas of application of the criminal liability of legal entities and the types of sanctions applied to legal entities.