Corporate manslaughter clarified

The government has resisted broadening the scope of the Corporate Manslaughter Bill but has agreed to clarify the detail in certain areas

Responding to the Home Affairs and Work and Pensions Committees' recommendations on the draft Corporate Manslaughter Bill, the government has resisted calls to broaden the Bill's scope but has agreed to clarify the detail in some areas.

Among the areas to be clarified are the definition of the senior manager test and the management failure test, which the government accepts have been widely misunderstood. It has retained the concept of duty of care but has rejected an additional offence of