With the recent statute changing the way in which corporations are criminally liable for deaths in the workplace and in public disasters, 5PB is well placed with experience both of the old regime, and the new.
Jonathan Caplan QC has been instructed in many of the most important transport disaster trials, ranging for the Herald of Free Enterprise (in which he successfully argued that his client could not be guilty of the Common Law manslaughter offence) to South West Trains.
Many members of chambers are involved in Health and Safety prosecutions as well as environmental matters. In addition, Amanda Pinto QC has written on both the new, statutory and old, Common Law corporate manslaughter systems in “Corporate Criminal Liability” (2nd edition published 2008, Sweet and Maxwell).
This authoritative work has been relied upon by practitioners and judges in many of the most significant cases in the field.