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TEN years after Government talks first began, the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act will finally come into force today.

Martin Bare, president of the Association of Personal Injury Lawyers (APIL), said: "We hope this will be a wake-up call for those companies who take a lax approach to the health and safety of their staff and force them to take it much more seriously."

Under the new law, companies will face unlimited fines if they are found guilty of causing a death through a "gross breach of duty owed under the law of negligence".

Mr Bare said: "Obviously we are very pleased that this is now law and we hope it goes a long way to protecting employers and preventing needless deaths.

"We do feel, though, that if the Government had decided to target individuals, rather than companies, the Act would have been an even stronger deterrent to those who choose to ignore health and safety of their employees."

The APIL was established in 1990 by a group of lawyers working on behalf of personal injury victims and now has more than 5,000 members.

It campaigns for improvements in the law to help people who are injured or become ill through no fault of their own.

9:07am Sunday 6th April 2008

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