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Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill

My Lords, secondary criminal liability was not raised until the Bill got to this House. The Government have been determined to exclude secondary liability from the Bill—why, I do not know, for all the reasons given by noble Lords who have spoken. I suspect that they will reject it again under this amendment, whose drafting, I agree with the noble Lord, Lord Clinton-Davis, needs to be looked at again. The problem is not this amendment but Clause 18. If the Government resist to the end having any individual secondary liability in respect of the deaths caused by homicide at the level defined in this Bill, the issue will come back to haunt them and there will be an amendment in due time to introduce normal rule-of-law secondary liability into the legislation.