UK: corporate manslaughter trial begins next week

Earlier this year the Crown Prosecution Service announced that a company - Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd. (CGH) - had become the first to face the charge of corporate manslaughter under the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act 2007. In an article titled "Corporate manslaughter: making work a much safer place", which appeared in yesterday's Times newspaper, Professor Gary Slapper noted that the trial of CGH will begin next week at Stroud Magistrates' Court. 

For further information about the 2007 Act see the guidance published by the Ministry of Justice available here.