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FACT FILE • The Corporate Manslaughter Bill is not expected
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to become law until late next year • The consultation period ended on 17 June • Cases will be heard in Crown Courts and the maximum penalty would be an unlimited fine • The law will allow senior management to be held collectively liable for deaths caused by gross negligence • Current laws require that an individual senior manager must be held responsible for a corporate manslaughter charge to stick • Every week an average of five workers are killed doing their jobs. The unions claim almost all of these deaths are due to management failures CONTACT Centre for Corporate Accountability: 020 7490 4494; wvvw.corporateaccountability.org Details of the draft bill and an impact assessment are available from the Home Off ice website: www.homeffice.gov.uk/clocs4/con corp_ mans.htrn1