Another step closer to the statute book for corporate manslaughter.

Publication: The Safety & Health Practitioner

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In what has been hailed as a "key step" towards getting an offence on to the statute books, the Government has issued its response to the Joint Home Affairs and Work and Pensions Committees' report on the draft corporate manslaughter Bill.

Placing the response before Parliament on 8 March, Home Office minister Fiona Mactaggart said: "The Government is pleased that the Committees supported the basic tenets of the draft Bill and Government policy in this area: the need for reform, an offence aimed at the most serious failures in management of health and safety, and the lifting of Crown immunity."

The Government was responding to the joint Home Office/DWP report published on 20 December and containing...

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