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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2011

I certainly cannot answer that directly; I will have to write. It is an interesting point. I shall not mention providers by name, but if a private prison or a private transporter of prisoners was guilty of corporate manslaughter, would the line of responsibility run back to the MoJ? I take it that that is the point. It is an interesting point. I suspect that, on the one hand, the suggestion would be that the responsibility for the corporate manslaughter would be that of the provider and that the provider would be charged; on the other hand, there is the argument that the MoJ should never have given the contract to such a body in the first place. This is what makes this job both interesting and frightening at times. I shall write to my noble friend to clarify. Motion agreed.

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Reference

729 c83-4GC 

Session

2010-12

Chamber / Committee

House of Lords Grand Committee
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