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00972608 COMPANY LAW ESSAY The law relating to corporate manslaughter by many is deemed of being ineffective. Companies can be charged with manslaughter through the Homicide Act 1957 only if the identification principle, established through case law, can be established. However, the case law surrounding corporate manslaughter has made it very difficult for a company to be liable for manslaughter due to the loop in the law brought about by the identification principle and the general hardship of proving mens rea for a company's criminal offence. Therefore a company can be guilty of involuntary manslaughter. This is because for voluntary manslaughter to be applicable the defendant must rely on one of the defences of provocation1, diminished responsibility2, or by killing in pursuance to the suicide pact3. Indeed without such defences the charge would be one of murder, which is clearly inapplicable to any discussion of corporate liability. Involuntary manslaughter is made up of...

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