R v. Beckingham: case closed

The prosecution of Gillian Beckingham and Barrow Borough Council following the UK’s largest ever outbreak of Legionnaires’ Disease has raised a number of important issues and questions: what makes someone negligent but not grossly negligent? What do you have to prove to prosecute a company or organisation for corporate manslaughter? And, perhaps most poignantly for anyone with health and safety responsibilities, could it be you? Beckingham may not have considered herself to b... (374 more words)

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