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The Sentencing Council (SC), the independent, non-departmental public body tasked with developing sentencing guidelines in England and Wales, has proposed cracking down on corporate manslaughter offences by imposing steeper fines in its November 2014 consultation.

The findings of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) Global Economic Crime Survey 2014 have business owners and high-level employees reassessing their organisations’ protections against economic crime.

Manufacturing firm in court after worker loses arm A Powys firm was fined £10,000 and ordered to pay £11,865 when a 59-year-old worker lost his arm during routine maintenance on an industrial saw.

In December 2014, the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) – a tribunal public body responsible for hearing appeals from Employment Tribunals – dismissed an employee’s claim that his privacy had been infringed by his employer and confirmed, more generally, employers’ rights to monitor workplace emails and Internet use when a clear policy is in place.