New corporate manslaughter draft guidelines

摘要

The Sentencing Guidelines Council has published draft guidelines on corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences causing death.rnAlison Gray, a specialist in health and safety law at solicitor Dickinson Dees (which advises numerous chemical, waste, manufacturing, construction and heavy industry businesses), said: 'The changes will result in significantly higher fines for companies charged following a fatality in the workplace. Whilst the proposals fixing fines to a percentage of turnover have been dropped, which will be welcomed by larger companies, the draft guidance is clear that fines imposed by the Court must be punitive and must have an impact on the defendant.