Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2001

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2001 would make a company criminally responsible when failures in how it manages or organises its work fall seriously below reasonable safety standards and cause someone’s death. A conviction would not require proof that a particular senior manager was personally at fault, while officers or employees could also be convicted where recklessness or gross negligence contributed to the failure.

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Bill entitled an Act to define certain circumstances in which a body corporate, its officers and its employees may be found guilty of manslaughter

Last updated 27 July 2018