Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2007

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2007 would make an organisation criminally responsible where gross negligence causes someone’s death, including deaths linked to poor workplace safety, bad practices or serious mismanagement. Senior managers could also face prosecution if they knew, or should have known, about a major risk and failed to act or warn someone able to deal with it. Organisations could face fines, orders to fix safety failures, community-service requirements and public disclosure of their conviction; managers could face up to 12 years in prison and up to 15 years’ disqualification from management. The Bill would also prevent organisations avoiding liability by dissolving and re-forming, while preserving the possibility of prosecuting individuals for ordinary manslaughter.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to create the indictable offence of corporate manslaughter by an undertaking, to create the indictable offence of grossly negligent management causing death by a high managerial agent of the undertaking, and to provide for related matters

Last updated 12 April 2018