Select Committee on Home Affairs and Work and Pensions Written Evidence

169.  Supplementary memorandum submitted by the Marchioness Contact Group

LIABILITY

  Where there is unlawful killing corporate companies should not be able to limit liability by statute to a minimum ie Marchioness/Bowbelle £810. However long it takes to establish who is responsible, direct and indirect costs should be paid by the companies named causative of the deaths, not time barred by statute as in the Marchioness disaster.

November 2005

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Prepared 20 December 2005