Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 comes into force
Implementation date: 6 April 2008
New laws on corporate
manslaughter are introduced. They will create a new offence of corporate
manslaughter (corporate homicide in Scotland), which would allow organisations
to be prosecuted for management failures that lead to the deaths of employees
and others. The Act can be viewed on the OPSI website.
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