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  1. Corporate manslaughter to extend to custody providers

    Changes to the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, due to come into force on 1 September 2011, will have the effect of bringing deaths in custody within the remit of the Act. An Independent Police Complaints Commission report in December 2010 identified 333 deaths in police custody between 1998 and 2009. According ...

    News | 30 Aug 2011

  2. Second corporate manslaughter trial date set

    A trial date has been set for the second corporate manslaughter case. Lion Steel Equipment is charged with corporate manslaughter. Three of the company directors – Kevin Palliser, Richard Williams and Graham Coupe – will also be charged with gross negligence manslaughter. The charges come following the death of Steven Berry, who fell through a fragile ro...

    News | 23 Aug 2011

  3. Firm in court on Corporate Manslaughter charge

    A preliminary hearing is being held at Manchester Crown Court today for the second ever case of corporate manslaughter. Lion Steel Equipment has been charged with corporate manslaughter and three directors have been charged with gross negligence manslaughter after an employee died in hospital following a fall through a roof at one of the firm’s sites.   Paul Verrico, Associate and Solicitor-Advocate at law fi...

    Case | 4 Aug 2011

  4. Manchester firm to be charged with corporate manslaughter

    The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has confirmed that it has advised Greater Manchester Police to charge Lion Steel Ltd with corporate manslaughter. Three of the company directors – Kevin Palliser, Richard Williams and Graham Coupe – will also be charged with gross negligence manslaughter. The charges come following the death of Steven Berry, who fell through a fragile roof panel in 2008 and died as a result of injuries sustained in the...

    News | 5 Jul 2011

  5. First corporate manslaughter conviction

    Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings has become the first company to be convicted of the new offence of corporate manslaughter.   Twenty seven year old Alex Wright was working as a geologist for Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings on 5 September 2008, investigating soil conditions in a deep trench on a development plot in Stroud when it collapsed and killed him.   Detective Inspector Giulia Marogna, of Gloucestershire Con...

    News | 16 Feb 2011

  6. First corporate manslaughter trial hears from director

    The Court for the first corporate manslaughter trial this week heard a statement from the director of the company on trial. Alexander Wright, a geologist, died in 2008 when a pit he was working in collapsed on him. The company he was working for, Cotswold Geotechnical (Holdings) Ltd, is currently on trial on corporate manslaughter charges....

    Case | 11 Feb 2011

  7. Corporate manslaughter trial jury hears details

    Winchester Court has this week heard details of the death of Alexander Wright, a geologist who died whilst working for Cotswold Geotechnical (Holdings) Ltd. Cotswold Geotechnical (Holdings) Ltd is currently the first company on trial for corporate manslaughter in the UK.  Mr Wright was testing soil in a 12.6-foot, unsupported pit which collapsed. He died of traumatic asphyxia. It is alleged that Cotswold Geotechnical (Holdings) Ltd breached health and safety laws because the pit was not supported by timbering. No one was in the dock for Cotswold G...

    Case | 1 Feb 2011

  8. First corporate manslaughter trial due to start today

      The long-awaited trial for corporate manslaughter of Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings is due to start today at Winchester Crown Court in front of Justice Field. The charges of gross negligence manslaughter against its managing director, Peter Eaton, were dropped last year due to his ill health. Sally Roff, Partner and Head of the Safety, Healt...

    Case | 27 Jan 2011

  9. Charges dropped in first corporate manslaughter trial

    The long-awaited trial for corporate manslaughter...

    News | 12 Oct 2010

  10. First corporate manslaughter case adjourned

    The first trial under the new Corporate Manslaughter Act, being heard at Bristol Crown Court, has been adjourned, and will be relisted to resume in early October as a result of Peter Eaton requiring urgent medical treatment. Peter Eaton and his company, Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd, are being jointly charged in the UK's first prosecution under...

    News | 1 Mar 2010

  11. Corporate manslaughter trial due to continue

    The first corporate manslaughter trial is set to continue today after it was adjourned earlier in the week for legal arguments.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 ...

    News | 26 Feb 2010

  12. New sentencing guidelines for corporate manslaughter

    The Sentencing Guidelines Council (SGC) has published its definitive guideline on corporate manslaughter sentencing. It sets out principles to guide courts in dealing with companies and organisations that cause death through a gross breach of care or where breaches of health and safety requirements are a significant cause of the death. The guidelines will come into effect from next week (15 February)....

    News | 11 Feb 2010

  13. Corporate manslaughter fines should be linked to turnover

    Not linking fines with turnover is a gross undermining of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (CMCHA), a law firm has said.  In response to a consultation on the proposals, which closed last week, Thompsons Solicitors. argues that the opportunity for a clear message to employers which might prevent deaths has been lost.  Proposals contained in the Sen...

    News | 12 Jan 2010

  14. BBC told: corporate manslaughter affects all businesses

    If businesses are already doing everything they should be to comply with health and safety legislation, they have little to fear in the new corporate manslaughter law, coming into force on 6 April. Those were the words of Workplace Law's Business Compliance Editor, Claire Fuller, in an interview with the BBC this morning.Discussing the impending Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire's breakfast show, Fuller advise...

    News | 20 Mar 2008

  15. Corporate manslaughter fines should be £500,000+

    ...cing in all courts in England and Wales, supporting judges and magistrates in their decision-making. It is an independent body with both judicial and non-judicial members, chaired by the Lord Chief Justice.     The guidelines state that fines for organisations found guilty of the offence of corporate manslaughter may be measured in millions of pounds and should seldom be below £500,000.    They also say that the new sanction of Publicity Orders forcing companies and organisations to make a statement about their conviction and fine introduced under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corpora...

    News | 27 Oct 2009

  16. First Corporate Manslaughter trial date is set

    The first trial to be brought under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 will open in Bristol Crown Court on February 23 2010 and is expected to last six weeks.  The case against Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings follows the death of one of its employees, Alexander Wright, a geologist, who was killed in September 2008, when a trench where h...

    Case | 21 Aug 2009

  17. Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007

    The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into force on 26 July 2007 and sets out new legislation to convict an organisation where a gross failure in the way activities were managed or organised results in a person’s death.   With this new approach, courts will be able to look at and assess managem...

    Regulation | 26 Jul 2007

  18. 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 taking soil samples collapsed.    In today’s short proceedings ...

    Case | 24 Jun 2009

  19. Firms still unaware of Corporate Manslaughter implications

    Research released today by the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH)  highlights that businesses' understanding of the possible implications of a prosecution under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act is worryingly low.    The survey of 500 business decision-makers revealed that 57% of businesses are unaware that they could be subject to a publicity order if found guilty of a fatal accident at work. The possibility of such an order is one of the new aspects of the A...

    News | 24 Jun 2009

  20. First Corporate Manslaughter Case referred to crown court

    The first case to be brought under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 has been referred to Bristol Crown Court.  The case against Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings, the first organisation to be charged with corporate manslaughter, following the death of one of its employees, has been referred for an administrative hearing, known as a Pre...

    News | 17 Jun 2009

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