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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