Several recent pieces of UK legislation have significantly tightened legal regulation of corporate, director and senior manager behaviour.
Corporate bodies and individual directors alike are increasingly becoming legally responsible not just for their actions but also for the actions of their employees, staff and agents - in short, anyone authorised to act on behalf of the company.
The days when directors or corporate bodies could escape being held accountable for corporate wrongdoing by hiding behind the wrongdoing of rogue employees seem to be coming to an end....etc
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