Why won’t Labour stop corporate murder?
By Gerry Bates Under the Corporate Manslaughter Bill, currently going through the House of Lords, large dangerous organisations that kill will continue to escape prosecution. That is the legal opinion of lawyers working for the Centre for Corporate Accountability. The new corporate manslaughter offence requires that a substantial element of the gross management failure within the organisation that caused the death must be that of senior managers. CCA lawyers Peter Thornton QC and Francis Fitzgibbon say: “It takes no great foresight to see that in a large organisation, such as a train operating...