The Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007 (CMCHA 2007) created a new offence of “corporate manslaughter” and aimed to make it easier to prosecute companies and other large organisations when gross failures in their management of health and safety have led to a death. The Act was the result of persistent pressure from safety campaigners and unions. It removed a key obstacle in previous prosecutions, where a company could only be convicted of manslaughter if a “directing mind”, such as a director, at the top of the company was also personally liable.