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Corporate manslaughter and corporate homicide bill

We are strongly committed to safety in the workplace. This means having effective laws in place to prosecute organisations that pay scant regard to the proper management of health and safety - with fatal results.

Current law on corporate manslaughter links a company's guilt to the gross negligence of a person senior enough to be said to 'embody' the organisation. This fails to reflect the complexity of modern corporate life and there is strong support for reform.

The Government is committed to reforming this area of the law and introduced the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill (new window) into Parliament on 21 July 2006.

Background information

The Home Affairs and Work and Pensions Committees considered the draft Bill over the summer and autumn of 2005 and published their final report in December 2005. Further information about this enquiry can be found on the Parliament website (new window).

  

Date: Thu Jul 20 13:00:00 BST 2006

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