A young child asks " was my Uncle Chris really killed for £2 ? " ...
BBC Radio 4 Broadcast recorded:
John Waite presents the investigative consumer series.
Efforts by the Health and Safety Executive to ensure heavy punishment for serious breaches of regulations are often undermined by laws which are aimed at companies rather than the people who run them. Firms which go into administration after an accident can simply escape any penalty while the directors can set up in business again soon afterwards, all perfectly legally. The government has thus far resisted efforts to change the law to make it easier to prosecute individual directors. John hears how one firm, found guilty after men died. folded between verdict and sentencing, leaving a penalty of nearly half a million pounds unpaid.
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This very interesting investigative broadcast looks at how companies and directors escape any real penulty ... clearly, there is a case to make the individual directors held responsible ...
... company law is often used to escape legal action by going out of business ~ administration and liquidation ...
Rita Donaghy has been commissioned to prepare a report on fatality in the construction industry ~ well, the report is out ... when are we going to see some positive action following her thorough findings ???
