The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 is a landmark in UK law. Companies and organisations can be found guilty of corporate manslaughter as a result of serious management failures resulting in a gross breach of a duty of care.
The Act, which came into force on 6 April 2008, clarifies the criminal liabilities of companies including large organisations where serious failures in the management of health and safety result in a fatality.
January 10, 2022
2021 saw some huge fines for the likes of Vue Entertainment, Drayton Manor, British Airways and NHS Trust, a £4m fine for National Grid and a £6.5m fine following the death of an 11-year-old boy at a freight terminal. Read More
November 18, 2021
Two companies have been fined following an incident where a security guard died after being found lying face down and hypothermic, in deep snow, at a remote hillside in Ayrshire. Read More
November 16, 2021
A concrete supplier has been fined after an agency worker contracted to work at its site suffered fatal injuries following a tyre explosion. Read More
November 15, 2021
A company has been fined after an employee was struck by an excavator and fatally crushed. Read More
November 13, 2021
The accident occurred when an employee was passing through an automatic gate in the machinery yard when the gate closed on him and he sustained fatal injuries. Read More
November 9, 2021
The Managing Director of a scaffolding company has been fined after an employee died when he was struck from behind by a forklift truck. Read More
November 5, 2021
The owner of a business has been sentenced to eight months in prison, suspended for 18 months, after a fatal accident. Read More
September 8, 2021
A fencing manufacturer and the owner of the yard where the business operates, have been fined following the death of an employee at the site. Read More
August 5, 2021
Egger (UK) Limited has been fined after a self-employed lorry driver was killed making a routine delivery of recycled wood. Read More
August 2, 2021
A lighting manufacturer has been fined after an employee was fatally injured when the forklift truck he was driving struck an overhead steel beam. Read More