Coal inquiry concerns over manslaughter laws, corporate practices

Friday December 18, 2020

The Coal Mining board of inquiry has claimed the Government’s new industrial manslaughter laws need refinement because it doesn’t make clear who is liable.

Board of inquiry raises questions for Government and companies

In the first report from the board it also complained that it did not have power to compel a witness to provide all relevant evidence to the inquiry.

“Clearly enough, this seriously compromises the capacity of the board to inquire into the nature and cause of the serious accident and the probable causes of the methane exceedances at Grosvenor…

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