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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

I am obliged to my noble and learned friend Lord Boyd. He has particular experience of the complexities of culpable homicide and the question of corporate homicide in Scotland as a result of the major case, Transco, which resulted in a £15 million fine, the largest ever in the United Kingdom. I trust that this will not bore those who are not of a Caledonian disposition, but the peculiarity of the different area—from which the culpable homicide crime arises in Scotland—and the way in which it fits in with the possibility of creating difficulties with the notion of secondary offences, raises an interesting point in the context of the proposal before us. This interesting debate is likely to be more a matter that falls within the purview of the Scottish Executive, as one is moving into the devolved area of Scottish criminal law. It may be for the Scottish Executive—a body of which my noble friend was but lately a Member—to pursue that point.