UK corporate manslaughter cases tend to be complex and can take years to reach a finding
- Written by Victoria Elizabeth Roper, Associate Professor in Law/Solicitor, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Police have launched a corporate manslaughter investigation at the Chester hospital that employed Lucy Letby, a former nurse recently convicted of murdering seven babies in the hospital’s neonatal unit in 2015 and 2016.
Corporate manslaughter charges can be brought against organisations that have been grossly negligent, resulting in death....