After years of beating about the bush, the new law on deadly accidents at work is ready and has to be submitted to Parliament. (Ref. 0674)
Promised since 1997 by the Labour Party and eagerly-awaited by trade unions, it will make legal proceedings easier. It creates a new offence of “corporate manslaughter” which will apply when someone dies because a corporation’s senior management has grossly failed to enforce the basic safety rules to protect its employees or any other person (customers..).
In order to prosecute a company, it will no longer be compulsory to prove that a well-identified person heading the company is personally...
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