The Funadamentals of Manufacturer's Criminal and Civil Liability for Defective Products

The present century is being industrialized day by day and many people are taking action to produce industrial products in an enormous amount with commercial goals and this enormous amount of products will naturally lead to the harmful results that originated from consumption of these products. In recent years, the governments, with an interventional approach and in order to support the consumers, have attempted to legislate the compulsory and protective acts. At classical law, the principle of freedom of will and fault principle were the bases of the liability of producers. The intricacy and difficulties of proving fault and harmful effects of consumption of industrial products caused to accept the Criminal Responsibility of producers whitout Proving negligence during the producing process. This Article intends to create an efficient criminal policy to react against the guilty producers based on the Islamic jurisprudence sources.