Corporate criminal conviction as corporate death sentence? Court says companies can be fined into bankruptcy for workplace accidents

On September 4, 2013, the Court of Appeal for Ontario released its decision in the sentence appeal in R. v. Metron Construction Corporation1 (“Metron”). Government prosecutors had appealed against the C$200,000 fine Metron received on July 13, 2012, after the company pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal negligence causing death.

Filed under:
Canada, Ontario, Employment & Labor, Insolvency & Restructuring, Litigation, Heenan Blaikie LLP, Criminal negligence
Authors:
Cheryl A. Edwards , Jeremy Warning , Daniel Mayer
Location:
Canada
Firm:
Heenan Blaikie LLP