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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

In this group, we are also considering whether the whole clause should stand part of the Bill. An example of complete communication failure from the 19th century is the Charge of the Light Brigade. I understand that the brigade was tasked with charging different guns, but communications became muddled and it ended up attacking guns well up the Valley of Death, as we well know, and coming to considerable grief. Will the Minister explain whether that incompetent communication between commanders would have ended up as being corporate homicide?

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Reference

688 c231GC 

Session

2006-07

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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