ORGANIZATIONS CANNOT BE EFFECTIVELY BROUGHT TO JUSTICE FOR THEIR ACTS OR OMISSIONS UNTIL THE LAW ACKNOWLEDGES THAT FAULT LIES AS MUCH WITH CORPORATE CULTURE AS IT DOES WITH INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT?

ORGANIZATIONS CAN NOT BE EFFECTIVELY BROUGHT TO JUSTICE FOR THEIR ACTS OR OMISSIONS UNTIL THE LAW ACKNOWLEDGES THAT FAULT LIES AS MUCH WITH CORPORATE CULTURE AS IT DOES WITH INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY. TO WHAT EXTENT DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS STATEMENT?

Until the law recognizes that blame lies as much with corporate culture as it does with human accountability, it is impossible to hold organizations accountable for their deeds or omissions. How much do you concur with this statement?
Consideration of the issue of how the law may and should hold a business or organization composed of its members, owners, managers, and other stakeholders accountable for its actions or inactions is necessary for the essay. The extent (if any) of corporate culture’s influence on the deeds or omissions of people acting for or on behalf of businesses must also be taken into account, as well as how the law can be used to rectify this.

The victims of those acts or omissions cannot be effectively compensated financially or by seeing that justice is served by punishing the firm or someone acting on its behalf if a company is not held legally liable for those acts or omissions. Due to the fact that the law typically deals with physical rather than abstract bodies, it must assign blame in a rather arbitrary way.

The essay should evaluate how well the law serves the interests of the victims, the business and its employees, and the general public. Although the question primarily relates to the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act 2007 (UK) or its equivalent in other jurisdictions, it is important to keep in mind that other provisions in the civil and criminal law seek to hold businesses accountable and which could be considered in comparison to this legislation.