UK: England and Wales: company charged with corporate manslaughter

A company - Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd. - has become the first to face the charge of corporate manslaughter introduced by the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act 2007. Further information about the case is available in the press release published by the Crown Prosecution Service as well as this report from the Times newspaper and this report in the Financial Times newspaper. For further information about the 2007 Act see the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice available here.