Corporate Killing - A New Offence

Bridge Bird & Noy Trounson

February 2002

A paper given at a meeting of the Society of Construction Law in Nottingham on 17th July 2001.

The paper looks at the Government’s proposals (announced in October 2001) to introduce a new offence of corporate killing to hold companies accountable for behaviour for which an individual would be liable to a charge of manslaughter, and at the Government’s plans to revitalise health and safety.

Introduction – Background – Corporate killing: a new offence – The existing law: manslaughter – The Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 – Will corporate killing work? – evitalising health and safety – Summary.

The authors: Bridget Bird is an associate with DLA solicitors in Sheffield and Noy Trounson is a regulatory lawyer with DLA in London.

Text 10 pages.

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