The article deals with the entrenchment of the institute of criminal liability
of a legal person in the Lithuanian criminal law. Upon approval of the Criminal Code of
the Republic of Lithuania (hereinafter also referred to as the CC) on 26 September 2000, the
criminal liability of a legal person was provided almost in every fifth (at present—in every
second) article of the Special Part of the CC. Although criminal liability has been increasingly
applied to legal persons (e.g., in 2011, if compared to 2005, almost three times as much punishments were imposed), however, almost 90 percent of the articles of the CC providing
also for criminal liability of a legal person are “dead”. One doubt arises with regard to social
legitimacy of such lawmaking and the quality thereof in the sense of juridical technique