The first UK company to be convicted for the offence of corporate manslaughter has been fined £385,000.
Gloucestershire-based Cotswold Geotechnical Holdings Ltd was convicted by a jury at Winchester Crown Court in less than two hours. The case concerned the death of a junior geologist, Alexander Wright, who died while working on a project for the company in 2008. Wright, 27, was taking soil samples in an excavated pit when the sides…
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