Sentencing guidelines for Manslaughter Act due early 2009

• Author:
• CMS Cameron McKenna

The Sentencing Guidelines Secretariat has indicated that guidelines to support the new corporate manslaughter offence created by the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (the 2007 Act) will not be published until early 2009, despite earlier suggestions from the Ministry of Justice that the guidelines were due to be ready in autumn 2008.

The 2007 Act creates a new statutory offence of corporate manslaughter (to be known as corporate homicide in Scotland), where a fatality is... (361 more words)

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