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23
December 2003, immediate release
Home
Office Delays Publication of Corporate Killing Proposals
The
Home Office has confirmed to the Centre for Corporate
Accountability today that it will not be publishing
proposals to reform the law of corporate manslaughter
until 2004.
In
May 2003, when the Criminal Justice Bill was being
debated in Parliament, the Home Office - in response
to an amendment that would have introduced a new offence
of Corporate Killing - issued a statement in which
it said that:
"a timetable for legislation and further details
would be announced this autumn."
However
autumn passed and no timetable for legislation has
yet been announced.
However,
the Home Office then subsequently promised to publish
proposals by the "end of the year".
However
the Home Office has now told the CCA that the proposals
will not be published until 'late January or early
February', though it told the CCA that it still intended
to publish a draft bill in the Spring of 2004.
This
further delay comes in a week in which the Centre's
Work-related Death Monitoring Service has identified
that at least ten people have died in work-related
incidents (nine workers, one member of the public).
| Date |
Name |
Circumstances |
| 16
Dec 2003 |
Alan
Ronald |
Aged
44, from Clydebank and employed by Scottish Power,
he died while doing routine tests on overhead
power lines in Lanarkshire, Scotland. |
| 16
Dec 2003 |
Kelly
Pattinson |
Aged
20, she was killed at her parent's farm in Teesdale,
County Durham, when she fell on moving tractor
machinery while cutting wood. |
| 17
Dec 2003 |
Virgil
Williamson |
Aged
37, a steeplejack from Stoke on Trent died following
a fall of 49m from a chimney at the Albion Mill,
Pollard St, Manchester. |
| 17
Dec 2003 |
Sean
Rowe |
Aged
30, from Plymouth, he was electrocuted when the
arm of a mechanical lifter he was operating to
lift telegraph poles connected with a high voltage
cable at Challonsleigh Farm Recycling Centre near
Plymouth. He was employed by Fujitsu Communications
Ltd. |
| 17
Dec 2003 |
Name
not available |
A
50 year old construction worker was crushed to
death under a portable cabin in Carnyorth, Cornwall. |
| 18
Dec 2003 |
Daniel
Readshaw |
Aged
13, lost his life while on a school swimming lesson
at St. John's Roman Catholic School, Bishop Aukland,
County Durham. His sister died in a similar swimming
pool incident, also aged 13, in 2001. |
20
Dec 2003
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Salah
Bashdar |
Aged
19, from Radcliffe, Manchester was crushed under
a vehicle at FR Autos, Longsight, Manchester. |
22
Dec 2003
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Michael
Briers |
Aged
30,he died when his road gritter overturned in
Diggle, Manchester. |
| 23
Dec 2003 |
Name
Not Available |
Aged
43 and from Newtown he died at the former KTH
factory at Llanidloe - now owned by the Welsh
Development Agency (WDA)- and which was in the
process of being de-commissioned. |
| 23
Dec 2003 |
Name
not Available |
A
36 year old from Norwich died when he fell into
a waste paper shredder at recycling firm MW White
of Ketteringham, Norfolk. |
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