Director faces court in UK’s first corporate manslaughter case

A company director appeared at Bristol Crown Court today, charged with gross negligence. Peter Eaton and his company, Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd, are being jointly charged in the UK's first prosecution under the 2007 Corporate Manslaughter Act.

 

The case against the company was brought by the Crown Prosecution Service following the death of one of its employees, Alexander Wright, a young geologist who was killed in September 2008, when a trench where he had been tak... (165 more words)

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