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Totally agree as I imply in the first paragraph of my post dated 10.36

No, but to get a track worker for manslaughter I think you'd need to prove he was negligent in doing his job and this wasn't just an honest mistake. Perhaps if it was proved that a rivet fell out because it was hammered in using the wrong type of hammer (say, because it was easier to use...

I don't agree because what you're effectively saying there is that the guy who bangs in the rivets isn't allowed to make a mistake - and in all liklihood he's not being enough to take on that sort of responsibility. Now if his manager decided afterwards not to perform a routine check on the...

So are you saying you don't agree with "corporate manslaughter"? Personally it seems to me to be a bit of a cop out charge. In the case of private companies with monopolies (train services in particular) the eventual outcome is bound to be a large fine...which we'll end up paying for anyway by...