Corporate manslaughter - Deadly serious: a matter of corporate concern

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act (2007) comes into force next year. Marcus Alcock reviews some potential ramifications of the new law in practice

Next April, nearly 11 years after it was first promised in the Labour party election manifesto of 1997, and despite having been part of numerous Queen's Speeches in the interim, a new law of corporate manslaughter will finally enter the statute books across the United Kingdom after receiving royal assent.

It has been debated, agonised over and bandied about between both houses for over a year in what must surely count as one of the longest sagas ever for the introduction of new legislation

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