What do you mean by Corporate Liability

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What do you mean by Corporate Liability?

Answer 1

Ontario’s Environmental Protection Act expands the basis for corporate liability to anything that is done by someone who is an officer, official, employee, or agent of a corporation so long as the person is acting within the course of his or her employment.

Most environmental offences are based on strict liability. This means that while responsibility is triggered by a prohibited act, the offender can avoid liability by proving that it acted carefully and with due diligence. Whether a corporation has exercised due diligence depends on whether a person who is the directing mind of the corporation acted reasonably under the circumstances.