Careful Pty Ltd has operations that are based in the suburbs of Sydney. Its managing director, Amber, was suddenly required to attend a board meeting in the city. The company has a history of expecting its managing directors to attend board meetings at short notice. In her haste to meet the appointed time for the board meeting, she drove recklessly through a crowded street and killed an innocent pedestrian.

Assuming that a charge of criminally negligent killing could be proven in these circumstances, could Careful Pty Ltd be made criminally responsible for the loss of life? 

Discuss the doctrines or the techniques available in law to impose criminal liability on corporations and state which ones would apply and which ones would not apply to these facts. Give reasons. use Australia law?

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