FOI Response released on 04 February 2019 relating to Corporate Manslaughter charges 

## Freedom Of Information Act 2000 Request Request Could You Please Provide Me With:

1. The number of charges brought for corporate manslaughter each year since the introduction 
of the Act. 
 
2. The names of all organisations charged with corporate manslaughter. 
 
3. Whether charges were also brought under Health and Safety legislation against any of the 
organisations. If charges were initially brought and then dropped, please confirm this if 
possible.  
 
4. Whether charges were also brought against Directors or employees of the organisation under 
either health and safety legislation or gross negligence manslaughter. If charges were initially brought and then dropped, please confirm this if possible. 
 
5.  The outcome of the cases (and the year of the outcome).  
 
6.  The sentences in the successful prosecutions. 
 
Response The offence of corporate manslaughter (and in Scotland, corporate homicide) was introduced by the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007.  By definition, a charge of corporate manslaughter can only be brought against an organisation (which includes government departments and crown bodies). The 2007 Act effectively absolved organisations of liability for the offence of common law manslaughter; however, individual employees can still be charged with gross negligence manslaughter. Individual employees (and organisations) can similarly be charged over the same underlying incidents leading to the death under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. 

 
 
Floor 8, 102 Petty France, London SW1H 9EA 
United Kingdom You have asked for "The number of charges brought for corporate manslaughter each year since the introduction of the Act". That information can be summarised as follows: 
 

|   Year  |   Cases  |
|---------|----------|
|   2008  |       0  |
|  2009   |       1  |
|   2010  |       0  |
|   2011  |       1  |
|   2012  |       1  |
|   2013  |       5  |
|   2014  |       6  |
|   2015  |       5  |
|   2016  |       5  |
|   2017  |       1  |
|   2018  |       2  |

 The information you have requested in questions 2-6 can be found in the table on the following page. Please note that information regarding the charges brought in each case has been taken from the formal indictment submitted by the prosecution at the start of each trial. Case outcomes refer to the corporate manslaughter offence only. In some cases, the figures given in the final column (sentences) represent the cumulative total of fines given in connection to all charges for which the organisation was found guilty.  
 

Name of organisation  
Sentence in successful 
outcome 
Outcome of the case and 
year of 
outcome 
H&S charges brought 
against the 
organisation? (Y/N)  
Charges brought against brought against Directors 
or employees of the 
organisation under either health and safety (H&S) legislation or for common law manslaughter (GNM) 
Y 
GNM and H&S.  
Guilty - 2011 
Fined £385,000  
Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd 
Fined £480,000 
Lion Steel Equipment Ltd 
N 
GNM and H&S 
Guilty plea - 2012  
Y  
H&S 
Guilty plea - 2013 
Fined £134,579.79 
Princes Sporting Club Ltd 
Fined £183,000 
Y 
GNM and H&S 
Guilty plea - 2014 
Mobile Sweepers (Reading) Ltd 
|                  | PS & JE Ward    | Y             |                  | Not guilty  -    |
|------------------|-----------------|---------------|------------------|------------------|
| 2014             |                 |               |                  |                  |
|                  | MNS Mining      |               |                  |                  |
| Ltd (Fyfields)   |                 |               |                  |                  |
| N                | GNM             | Not guilty -  |                  |                  |
| 2014             |                 |               |                  |                  |
| N                | H&S             | Guilty - 2014 | Fined £500,000   | Sterecycle       |
| (Rotheram) Ltd   |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Y                |                 | Guilty - 2014 | Fined £150,000   | Cavendish        |
| Masonry Ltd      |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Fined £220,000   | Peter Mawson    |               |                  |                  |
| Ltd              |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Y                | GNM and H&S     | Guilty plea - |                  |                  |
| 2015             |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Y                | H&S             | Guilty - 2015 | Fined £200,000   | Pyranha          |
| Mouldings        |                 |               |                  |                  |
| fined £150,000   | Huntley Mount   |               |                  |                  |
| Engineering Ltd  |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Y                | GNM             | Guilty plea - |                  |                  |
| 2015             |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Y                |                 | Guilty - 2015 | Fined £600,000   | CAV Aerospace    |
| Ltd              |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Fined £200,000   | Y               | GNM and H&S   | Guilty plea -    |                  |
| 2015             |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Linley           |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Developments     |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Ltd              |                 |               |                  |                  |
| N                |                 | Guilty - 2015 | Fined £300,000   | Kings            |
| Scaffolding Ltd  |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Baldwin's        |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Crane Hire Ltd   |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Y                |                 | Guilty - 2015 | Fined - £700,000 |                  |
|                  |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Fined - £50,000  | N               | GNM           | Guilty plea -    |                  |
| 2015             |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Cheshire Gate    |                 |               |                  |                  |
| and              |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Automation Ltd   |                 |               |                  |                  |
|                  | N               | GNM           | Judge directed   |                  |
| acquittal -      |                 |               |                  |                  |
| 2016             |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Maidstone and    |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Tunbridge        |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Wells NHS        |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Trust            |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Fined - £300,000 | Sherwood Rise   | Y             | GNM and H&S      | Guilty plea -    |
| 2016             |                 |               |                  |                  |
| N                | GNM and H&S     | Guilty - 2016 | Fined - £600,000 | Bilston Skips    |
| Ltd              |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Fined - £550,120 | Y               | H&S           | Guilty plea -    |                  |
| 2016             |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Monavan          |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Construction     |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Ltd              |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Ozdil            |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Investments      |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Y                | H&S             | Guilty - 2017 | Ozdil - fined    |                  |
| £660,000         |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Koseoglu - fined |                 |               |                  |                  |
| £400,000         |                 |               |                  |                  |
| Y                | GNM and H&S     | Guilty - 2017 | Fined - £300,000 | SR and RJ        |
| Brown            |                 |               |                  |                  |

 

| JTF Wholesale     | Y           | H&S            |
|-------------------|-------------|----------------|
|                   |             |                |
|                   |             |                |
| Y                 | H&S         | Guilty - 2017  |
| Construction      |             |                |
| Products Ltd      |             |                |
| Martinisation     |             |                |
| Ltd               |             |                |
|                   |             |                |
| Y                 | H&S         | Guilty - 2017  |
|                   |             |                |
|                   |             |                |
| Y                 | GNM and H&S | Awaiting trial |
| Consultants Ltd   |             |                |
| No                | H&S         | Awaiting trial |
| Haulage Ltd       |             |                |

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