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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

I am grateful to the noble Lord, Lord Wedderburn, for his elucidation. Clearly, we will need to reflect on his comments. As I was explaining, Amendment No. 83 takes another approach to compliance and proposes that the court should be able to require a convicted organisation to report back to it with details of the remedial steps taken. However, it is not clear how such a proposal could work, given that the original court will have risen at the end of the trial. Reconstituting the court to receive such a report would be a new departure for the UK courts, which currently do not monitor sentence compliance in that way. Without expert guidance it would also be very difficult for the court to assess the quality or appropriateness of the remedial action taken, particularly if it was highly technical. A better approach would be to trust the expert bodies to do their job. The relevant enforcing body will have a strong interest in ensuring that safe practices are adopted in a convicted organisation.