Corporate Manslaughter Bill – still 'ping ponging'!

The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill 2006-07 is said to still be 'ping-ponging' between the House of Lords and the House of Commons as the debate continues over whether the new offence will apply to deaths in state custody.

Earlier in the year, at the second reading of the Bill, the Lords passed an amendment that would have allowed the offence to apply to deaths in custody.

However, as Workplace Law Network previously reported, on 16 May the Commons rejected that amendme... (117 more words)

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