This paper examines each of the six concluded cases brought under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 to date and queries: why so few cases have been brought to trial, despite workplace deaths remaining in excess of 145 per year; why all six companies have been small companies, and all received fines below the ￡ 500,000 threshold recommended by the Sentencing Guidelines Council; and, finally, why individual charges of manslaughter against directors were either not brought or abandoned.
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