Corporate Manslaughter in UK Law
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Stone and Rolls Ltd ((in Liquidation)) v Moore Stephens (A Firm)
... ... a claim that would confer direct or indirect benefits on the corporate vehicle, which was used to commit the fraud and was not the victim of it, ... ...
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French and Others v Chief Constable of Sussex
... ... The first, described as the 'corporate failure', alleged a negligent failure to 'formulate, maintain, review, ... or other proceedings, such as prosecutions for corporate manslaughter. In such proceedings, fault is commonly alleged against the employees of ... ...
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Meridian Global Funds Management Asia Ltd v Securities Commission
... ... e ) the appropriate rule of attribution to be implied was that a corporate security holder knew that it was a substantial security holder in a public ... someone by reckless driving, the company will be guilty of manslaughter. There is no inconsistency. Each is an example of an attribution rule for ... ...
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R (on the application of Nicklinson and another) v Ministry of Justice; R (on the application of AM) v DPP
... ... 16 Manslaughter is also a common law offence with statutory amendments, again most notably ... river pollution to insider dealing, and from lottery offences to corporate manslaughter. In evidence to the Franks Committee in 1972, the Home Office ... ...
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R (Bodycote HIPP Ltd) v HM Coroner for Herefordshire
... ... it is contended that the gross negligence concerned is that of a corporate entity rather than any individual with the particular responsibilities and ... of the company as a corporation, that is to say, corporate manslaughter at common law ... 18 Further, if the Coroner had ... ...
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R v Dr Errol Cornish (First Defendant) Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (Second Defendant)
... ... first defendant in these proceedings, who is charged with the manslaughter of Mrs Cappuccini by gross negligence ... 3 ... They are charged with corporate manslaughter contrary to Section 1(1) of the Corporate Manslaughter and ... ...
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Praesto Consulting UK Ltd v HM Revenue and Customs
... ... For example, a claim could have been advanced on the basis that corporate opportunities had been diverted away from CSP to Praesto with the ... the Company itself in danger of being convicted of corporate manslaughter. The conviction of even one of the individual employees would have caused ... ...
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R v Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd and Others
... ... of negligent company acceptable Where a company was convicted of corporate manslaughter following a gross breach of duty, the fact that the fine ... ...
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R v Gemma Evans
... ... together with her mother, Andrea Townsend, was convicted of manslaughter by gross negligence in the Crown Court at Swansea before Lloyd Jones J and ... We also note for present purposes the provisions of the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 which are concerned with ... ...
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P & O European Ferries (Dover) Ltd
... ... with seven individual members of its staff, was charged with manslaughter as the result of the Herald of Free Enterprise disaster at Zeebrugge on 6 ... advised that there was a real threat of its being charged with corporate manslaughter. This would necessarily be associated with individual ... ...
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