Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)

The CMCHA 2007 largely removed Crown immunity for corporate manslaughter. However, it remains for health and safety offences. Unions whose members work for Crown bodies want the government to abolish Crown immunity completely. The PCS civil service union says it is increasingly difficult to come to a strict definition of what is meant by “the Crown”.

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