Employers on ‘suicide watch’ after Lords ruling on ex-employee suicide / Personnel Today, 28 February 2008
http://digbig.com/4wnar
Mike Berry
"Employers could be held liable for the suicides of ex-employees after a landmark ruling by the House of Lords."

CONSULTATION PAPER ON SENTENCING FOR CORPORATE MANSLAUGHTER / Sentencing Guidelines Council, 15 November 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4wabe

Understanding the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 / Ministry of Justice, October 2007
PDF - http://www.justice.gov.uk/docs/manslaughterhomicideact07.pdf

Health secretary brands hospital superbug deaths a scandal / Guardian, 11 October 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2188538,00.html
David Batty
"The health secretary, Alan Johnson, today called Britain's deadliest outbreak of a hospital superbug "a scandal"."

[USA] NATIONAL CENSUS OF FATAL OCCUPATIONAL INJURIES IN 2006 / US. Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 9 August 2007
PDF - http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/cfoi.pdf

Justice for corporate deaths: royal assent for corporate manslaughter and corporate homicide act / Ministry of Justice, 26 July 2007
http://www.justice.gov.uk/news/newsrelease260707b.htm
Corporate manslaughter and corporate homicide bill
http://digbig.com/4thfg

Bad press is biggest deterrent in corporate killing law / Personnel Today, 5 June 2007
http://digbig.com/4tbcm
"Corporate killing law puts senior managers under scrutiny even though they cannot be charged.
The saga of a corporate killing law, which has rumbled on in a highly unsatisfactory manner for more than 10 years, is finally reaching the home stretch. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 is scheduled to receive Royal Assent on 21 July. The one glitch at present is the dispute between the Commons and Lords as to whether the new law will apply to deaths in custody."

Deaths In Custody May Be Corporate Manslaughter / Police Oracle, 17 May 2007
http://www.policeoracle.com/news/detail.cfm?id=13464
"Responding to news from the Commons, Independent Police Complaints Commission Deputy Chair John Wadham said:
"The IPCC welcomes the announcement that policing functions from corporate manslaughter legislation may include deaths in prison and police custody; and proposals to strengthen the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody, an important mechanism for learning across institutions and reducing deaths in custody.""

Leading health and safety at work : ACTIONS AND GOOD PRACTICE FOR BOARD MEMBERS / INSTITUTE OF DIRECTORS, May 2007
PDF - http://digbig.com/4sxea
"Board level involvement is an essential part of the 21st century trading ethic. Attitudes to health and safety are determined by the bosses’ attitude not the company’s size." [Consultation paper]

[USA] Insuring Corporate Crime
Indiana Law Journal (forthcoming 2008), April 26, 2007
http://lsr.nellco.org/nyu/plltwp/papers/51/
Miriam H. Baer
"Corporate criminal liability has become an important and much-talked about topic. This Article argues that entity-based liability – particularly the manner in which it is currently applied by the federal government –creates social costs in excess of its benefits. To help companies better deter employee crime, the Article suggests the abolition of entity-wide criminal liability, and in its place, the adoption of an insurance system, whereby carriers would examine corporate compliance programs, estimate the risk that a corporation’s employees would commit crimes, and then charge companies for insuring those risks."

International comparison of health and safety responsibilities of company directors / Health and Safety Executive, April 2007
PDF - http://www.hse.gov.uk/research/rrpdf/rr535.pdf
David Bergman; Dr Courtney Davis; Bethan Rigby
RR535
"Prepared by Centre for Corporate Accountability for the Health and Safety Executive 2007.
This report looks at whether the law in nine different countries imposes health and safety duties upon boardroom directors (and other senior managers), and if so, what these duties comprise and whether they assist in the prosecution of directors. The main finding is that seven out of nine countries contain safety legislation that imposes positive safety obligations upon either directors or senior managers of companies. These are: Germany, France, Italy, Sweden, Japan, Canada (four out of fourteen jurisdictions) and Australia (two out of nine jurisdictions).
There is in addition another category of jurisdictions which, whilst not imposing explicit positive duties upon directors, do impose significant responsibilities through the creation of offences that are targeted at directors. This category includes four Australian states.
There are also, however, jurisdictions which either impose minimal or no duties upon directors. Two countries – USA and Holland – do not impose any obligations."

Web-based Travel Risk Intelligence Service provides organisations and travellers security and risk information / Security Park, 4 April 2007
http://www.securitypark.co.uk/article.asp?articleid=26628&Categoryid=1
"With the launch of the reformed Corporate Manslaughter Bill just months away, duty of care and corporate responsibility are high on organisational agendas. The Anvil Group has announced the availability of its web-based Travel Risk Intelligence Service (TRIS)."

Is your business ready for the new Corporate Manslaughter Bill? / Security Park, 28 March 2007
http://www.securitypark.co.uk/article.asp?articleid=26604&Categoryid=1
"The UK Government’s draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill was published on 23 March 2005. Under the draft, an organisation will be guilty of the new offence of corporate manslaughter if the way in which any of its activities are managed or organised by its senior managers causes a person’s death through a gross breach of a duty of care. The maximum penalty is an unlimited fine."

Corporate crime, media guilt, and the Apple rule / Economist, 13 March 2007
http://digbig.com/4rxer
"AMERICA'S corporate crime wave is the business story that keeps on giving. Many of the alleged crimes took place years ago, but they have lost none of their ability to make headlines.
Scandal over the backdating of share options to make top managers richer has reared its head again. This time greedy executives are accused of backdating options to exploit a stock market plunge after the terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001, when they should have had thoughts other than for their own wallets."

UK corporate manslaughter bill stalls after Lords extend liability to prison deaths / JURIST, 6 February 2007
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2007/02/uk-corporate-manslaughter-bill-stalls.php
Brett Murphy
"A proposed bill on corporate manslaughter came to a standstill in the UK House of Lords [official website] on Monday when Conservative and Liberal Democrats voted for an amendment which broadened the scope of the law to include deaths in prisons and police cells. The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill [Crown Prosecution Service backgrounder] was proposed by the government to make companies and organizations culpable for deaths under penalty of fines, but UK Home Secretary John Reid [official profile] said the Home Office would withdraw the bill if it was extended to deaths in prisons and cells. Lord Hunt [party profile], spokesperson for the Conservative Party, called the amendment a "triumph for natural justice" and labeled the Home Office's threat to withdraw the bill as "political blackmail."