The Position Of The Supreme Court Relating To The Protection Of The Fundamental Rights Of The Corporate Criminal Liability In The Criminal Proceedings

Resumen

La comunicación, tiene como idea central, comentar las Sentencias de la Sala de lo Penal del Tribunal Supremo, en relación a cómo se articula la responsabilidad penal de la persona jurídica con la de los integrantes de la entidad que hayan podido cometer el delito.

Para ello se analizan diversos derechos fundamentales que se han estudiado en dichas sentencias con el fin de comprobar si a la persona jurídica se le ampara con los mismos derechos que la persona física.

En especial, estudiaremos si en el procedimiento penal se garantiza el Derecho Fundamental de Defensa, contenido en la Constitución Española, a la persona jurídica de la misma manera que a la persona física.

The main idea behind this communication is to comment the Judgments of The Criminal Chamber of the Spanish Supreme Court, relating to how corporate criminal liability interacts with the criminal liability of the individuals within the company who may have committed a criminal offence.

Several fundamental rights that have been studied in these sentences are analyzed in order to verify whether the corporate liability is protected by the same rights as the natural person.

In particular, we will study whether the Fundamental Defense Law, contained in the Spanish Constitution, is guaranteed to the corporate liability in the criminal procedure in the same way as to the natural person.