Corporate Manslaughter

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.


Company and director sentenced after employee crushed to death

A company and its director have been sentenced following the death of an employee. Read More

INEOS fined £400k after employee seriously injured

INEOS has been fined £400,000 after an employee was seriously injured while carrying out a routine task at its chemicals site in Grangemouth, Scotland. Read More

Manufacturing company fined after worker fatally crushed

A manufacturing company has been fined £120,000 after a worker was killed after becoming trapped between two heavy steel beams. Read More

Company fined after 21-year-old worker dies

A company in Peterborough has been fined £67,000 after a young employee lost his life. Read More

Newport City Council fined £2m after man killed carrying out road repair

Newport City Council has been fined £2million after a man was killed while carrying out road repair works. Read More

Care home fined £125,000 after teenager’s death

A care home in Bristol has been fined for not doing enough to keep people safe from vulnerable patients who posed a danger to themselves and others. Read More

Entertainment company fined after worker dies from fall

A company in the entertainment industry has been fined £16,000 following the death of a worker. Read More

Funfair company fined £300k and manager jailed after three-year-old dies

An operations manager at a funfair company has been jailed for six months after a three-year-old girl died on a Norfolk beach. Read More

New Zealand landowner company found guilty over volcano disaster

Whakaari Management Limited, has been found guilty for failing to minimise risk at the time of the White Island volcanic eruption in 2019, where 22 people were killed. Read More

£3m fine for waste management company after two deaths

A waste management firm has been fined a total of £3 million following the deaths of two workers in separate incidents. Read More



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