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Campaigners have expressed concern at the shock announcement that the Scottish Executive consultation on corporate killing has been delayed. Cathy Jamieson, the justice minister, came under fire from unions and safety campaigners after this week dropping the commitment to publish a consultation paper on introducing into Scottish law an offence of corporate culpable homicide. Ms Jamieson told Karen Gillon, the Clydesdale Labour MSP who has been campaigning for the new offence, that she was instead setting up an 'expert working group' to consider the matter further. Ian Tasker, STUC safety specialist, said: 'The STUC are extremely disappointed that, despite having a written assurance from the Scottish Executive that the delay, at that time, in introducing the draft bill in England and Wales would not have an adverse impact in their proposals to consult on this issue there has now been a significant about turn. We have to question the motives for this course of action'. He added: 'While we agree that this may be a complex issue there has ample opportunity to form a panel of experts in the past as the STUC and a number of our affiliates have raised this matter with the minister on a number of occasions'. Unions have been demanding legislation for years, in the wake of accidents including the 1988 Piper Alpha oil rig fire which killed 167 workers. No-one was convicted of safety offences related to the disaster, despite the highly critical findings of an official enquiry. |
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