Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2013

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

The Corporate Manslaughter Bill 2013 would make an organisation criminally responsible where gross negligence in its work or management causes someone’s death, and would allow senior managers to be prosecuted for grossly negligent management causing death. Courts could impose fines and require organisations to fix unsafe practices, perform community service or publicise their conviction; senior managers could also be barred from holding management roles. It would strengthen accountability for workplace deaths and prevent organisations avoiding liability by dissolving and reforming.

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 13 August 2018