Corporate manslaughter

It has proven notoriously difficult in the past to prosecute employers for corporate manslaughter, but the new Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 seeks to improve things. The Act came into force on 6 April 2008, and introduced a new criminal offence for prosecuting companies and other organisations where there has been a gross failing in the management of health and safety that has had fatal consequences. Put simply, the Act seeks to make corporate manslaughter easier for prosecuting authorities to prove. The old law Previously, those prosecuting manslaughter charges...