£187,000 Fine in First Corporate Manslaughter Case in Northern Ireland

Marble City Ltd and directors Gavin and Jamie Waldron have been prosecuted following a fatal incident in March 2008 when granite and marble slabs were being unloaded from a vehicle.
Judge Taylor at Southwark Crown Court heard that director Gavin Waldron was supervising the unloading operation at the time of the death.
Six tonnes of stone slab [...]

On 6 April 2008 the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 came into force in the UK.  This Act creates a new offence that organisations can be convicted of in the event that severe failures in the way in which they manage and organise their activities leads to a fatality. Organisations both within the [...]