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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

moved Amendment No. 9: 9: Clause 1, page 1, line 21, leave out ““far”” The noble Baroness said: This is a simple amendment. I hope, therefore, that the Minister will be persuaded to accept it. As the clause stands, it states that, "““a breach of a duty of care by an organisation is a ‘gross’ breach if the conduct alleged to amount to a breach of that duty falls far below what can reasonably be expected””." We are talking about a death; somebody could have died. Therefore, are we going to have an argument about whether the breach of the duty had fallen far below or not far enough or too far? It should be sufficient simply to say that the breach of the duty falls ““below”” what can reasonably be expected. ““Far”” is not only redundant, but could lead to a lot of quite unnecessary argument. I beg to move.