This Act, with some exceptions, came into force on 6 April 2008 and applies to England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.  The Government is to keep implementation under review and will issue further guidance.

It provides that an offence in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be called corporate manslaughter, and corporate homicide in Scotland.

This Act will see companies and other large organisations facing prosecution, when their gross negligence leads to the death of individuals, and is the result of ten years campaigning by unions and other groups. 

Legislative background

Previously an organisation could be prosecuted at common...

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