{"id":891,"date":"2009-04-25T07:49:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-25T06:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=891"},"modified":"2009-07-30T09:57:57","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T08:57:57","slug":"first-company-charged-with-corporate-manslaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/?p=891","title":{"rendered":"First company charged with corporate manslaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img size-thumbnail wp-image-896 alignleft\" style=\"width:150px;\">\r\n\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/wright_alex1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"wright_alex1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>\r\n\t<div>Alexander Wright aged 27 who died <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n<p>A company in Gloucestershire is the first to face prosecution under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, which came into effect just over a year ago.  The Act holds to account organisations if a workplace death is attributed to the gross failings of managers.<\/p>\n<p>Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings, a geological survey company, is accused of a \u201cgross breach\u201d of duty in connection with the death of Alexander Wright aged 27 who died when a pit collapsed on him while he was taking a soil sample near Stroud in September 2008.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted the company faces an unlimited fine and a judicial \u201cpublicity order\u201d, requiring them to advertise their own conviction.<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the new offence was to try and gain traction on large and medium-sized companies, but this company is quite small.<\/p>\n<p>The case will start at Stroud Magistrates Court on June 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexander Wright aged 27 who died A company in Gloucestershire is the first to face prosecution under the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, which came into effect just over a year ago. The Act holds to account organisations if a workplace death is attributed to the gross failings of managers. Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=891"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/891\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sixthform.info\/lawblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}