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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

As I have spoken once or twice on this matter, I shall make only a brief intervention. The noble Lord, Lord Brennan, put his finger on a tremendously important point. I am not sure that I want to go down the route that he suggested, but will the Minister ask the Attorney-General to place in the Library the report—I vividly remember it because I was Attorney-General at the time—of what was said in open court by the judge in the ““Herald of Free Enterprise”” case? Of all the cases that have been bandied about in the context of this Bill, that of the ““Herald of Free Enterprise””—I am not for one moment saying that anyone was guilty; they certainly were not guilty under the law at that time—provides a pretty good benchmark of where we might be going. If those papers could be put in the Library, and we were to hear the views on them of, for example, the noble Lord, Lord Brennan, that might assist our debates.