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.
November 5, 2019
The University of Edinburgh has been fined for failings which led to animal research workers, who were already sensitised to laboratory animal allergens (LAA), being at risk of suffering from adverse health effects as a result of exposure to LAA. Read More
October 18, 2019
A local council and a bus company have been fined after a passenger was killed when she was run over by a lorry at the bus station. Read More
September 19, 2019
A roofing contractor has been fined after an employee fell to his death from a ladder while exiting a scaffold. Read More
August 8, 2019
Clancy Docwra Limited and one of its employees have been sentenced for health and safety breaches after another worker was struck by an excavator and was killed. Read More
July 2, 2019
A Co Tyrone company has been fined £150,000 for failings which resulted in the death of one of its employees at its premises on Killyclogher Road, Omagh. Read More
June 28, 2019
A grain store company has been fined after a worker was killed at its site in Linton, Cambridgeshire. Read More
June 18, 2019
An electrical company has been fined after a woman was fatally crushed by a roller shutter door. Read More
June 17, 2019
Two contractors have been fined after a worker died after falling through a fragile roof during construction work at a factory in Staffordshire. Read More
June 14, 2019
An electricity and gas utility company has been fined after a worker was killed on Winslow Road in East Claydon. Read More
June 11, 2019
Tesla Engineering Ltd, a superconducting electromagnet company, has been sentenced after a worker was fatally hit and crushed by an overhead gantry crane. Read More