The team at St Pauls chambers is highly experienced in corporate manslaughter cases, advising and advocating both prosecution and defence.

What is Corporate Manslaughter?

The offence of corporate manslaughter was established by the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act (2007). This removed the common law offence of gross negligence manslaughter for organisations to which the 2007 Act applies. These organisations affected are corporations (limited companies), partnerships, government departments and Crown bodies.

The Act addressed the perceived loophole in liability for large corporations where the common law doctrine of identification had proved an insurmountable hurdle. In other words, before the Act the prosecution could find it impossible to prove the act/omission causing death was in breach of a duty of care owed by an individual who embodied the corporation.

To show how important the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act (2007) is, previous application of common law identification pre-act resulted in successful prosecutions of the company involved for manslaughter. This includes public disasters such as the Herald of Free Enterprise, Piper Alpha, the Marchioness and the Hatfield rail crash.

“The clerking team is responsive, extremely approachable and knowledgeable”

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Get in touch

For further information and enquiries please contact our clerks team.

Corporate Manslaughter Barristers

Sam Green KC

Sam Green KC

Joint Head of Chambers

Call: 1998 Silk: 2015

Richard Barraclough KC

Richard Barraclough KC

Call: 1980 Silk: 2003

Simon Myerson KC

Simon Myerson KC

Call: 1986 Silk: 2003

Bryan Cox KC

Bryan Cox KC

Call: 1979 Silk: 2005

John Harrison KC

John Harrison KC

Call: 1994 Silk: 2016

Jonathon Sandiford KC St Pauls Chambers

Jonathan Sandiford KC

Call: 1992 Silk: 2020

Nicholas Worsley KC

Nicholas Worsley KC

Call: 1998 Silk: 2023

Helen Chapman

Helen Chapman

Call: 2006

Hannah Hinton

Hannah Hinton

Call: 2008

Angus MacDonald

Angus MacDonald

Call: 2009

George Hazel-Owram

George Hazel-Owram

Call: 2012

Frances Pencheon

Frances Pencheon

Call: 2015

Contact Us

Chambers is centrally located within walking distance of the train station, secure car parks and the Courts.

Contact Us

St Pauls Chambers
Park Row House
19-20 Park Row
Leeds
LS1 5JF

For out of hours assistance please call the senior clerk on 07854170429.

The switchboard will open from 08:30 until 17:30

Phone: +44 (0)1132 455 866
Email: [email protected]
CJSM: [email protected]

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