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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

Since, I gather, I am no longer recumbent, with great diffidence I submit that I would not wish to make any precise statement on the position of a particular, named company. Looking at the generality of the position, the whole essence of the Bill is to fix the notion of corporate manslaughter where there is gross negligence disclosed on the part of senior management. Obviously, one does not wish to get involved in any particular example that may immediately come to mind. I hope that the noble Lord will accept that the general intention behind the whole point of the Bill is to deal with issues where there is gross negligence that has resulted in a death and that may be stigmatised, or characterised, as corporate manslaughter.