Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

Can the hon. Gentleman explain his thinking in subsection (3), which makes the new clause indictable in Scotland only in the High Court of Justiciary? He will be aware that culpable homicide, in theory at least, can be policed in the sheriff court, although in practice it is nearly always tried in the High Court. There is an important point of principle involved—that is, in Scots law the choice of forum is the prerogative of Crown counsel.