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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