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"A new law to ensure companies whose negligence leads to the death of employees or the public has today been published after nearly a decade of planning. The corporate manslaughter and corporate homicide bill intends to make it easier to bring to justice large firms whose management failure has resulted in death. It was first mooted after the Southall rail crash in 1997, when the Swansea to Paddington express crashed into a freight train in west London, killing 32 people. Seven charges of corporate manslaughter were brought against the train operator, Great Western Trains, but dropped when the judge overseeing the case said that under the law as it stood, prosecutors would have to prove one individual manager was responsible. Under today's legislation, which will have its second reading in parliament on October 10th, the offence of corporate manslaughter would relate to the overall management of an activity within an organisation."
