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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

Earlier today, the Home Secretary stated that individual directors could still be prosecuted under the common law offence of manslaughter, but the hon. Gentleman may be aware that in Scotland the offence of culpable homicide in common law does not include a definition of gross negligence. Does he accept that the common law position in Scotland needs to be revised, too, so that we can achieve some degree of equivalence?

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Reference

450 c248 

Session

2005-06

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber
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