Scottish Labour has criticised the Scottish government’s refusal to support the Culpable Homicide (Scotland) Bill after the stage one debate at Holyrood. The bill, introduced to the Scottish Parliament in 2019 by Scottish Labour’s Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Claire Baker, sought to ensure
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A new member’s bill aims to make it easier to hold large companies and their senior managers liable for workplace fatalities. The proposed legislation would change the law in Scotland by creating two new offences – causing the death of a person recklessly, or by gross negligence. Both of