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Embargoed:
6.00 am Tuesday 28 May 2005
Significant changes needed to Corporate Manslaughter
Bill says safety charity
Changes need to be made to the Corporate Manslaughter
Bill before it can be considered an acceptable reform,
the Centre for Corporate Accountability has told the
the Home Office in its response to the consultation
process.
David
Bergman, Director of the Centre for Corporate Accountability
said:
"Although
we support the thrust of these proposals and much
that is in the Bill - quite significant changes
are required both to the nature of the offence and
to whom the offence should apply.
"Where
there is a very serious management failure within
the organisation which was known about or should
have been known about by one or more of its senior
manager who was or were in a position to rectify
the situation, the organisation should be able to
be prosecuted for this offence. This is not what
is being proposed in the Government's Bill.
In
addition the way in which the bill deals with crown
and other public bodies is far too restrictive.
The legal advice that we have sought and is part
of our response indicates that the Bill in its current
form will be in violation of the Human Rights Act
1998.
The
CCA has a separate press release relating to the human
rights Act issues. click
here
The Centre for Corporate Accountability is a
charity advising those bereaved from work-related
deaths, and working on issues of safety, law enforcement
and corporate accountability.
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