Role of judges, sentencing powers unlimited

Saturday 8 October 2005 at 10:45 pm | In News | Post Comment

7th October 2005 Old Bailey, London
Mr Justice Mackay imposed a record fine of £10 million on the rail maintenance company Balfour Beatty that was implicated in the Hatfield train crash.

The previous record in an English court of £2 million was imposed on Thames Trains after the 1999 Paddington rail crash. A £15 million pound fine was imposed Transco PLC in august 2005 at the High Court of Justiciary in Edinburgh

The judge said Balfour Beatty had been responsible for “one of the worst examples of sustained industrial negligence in a high-risk industry I have ever seen”. The incident at Hatfield resulted in 4 deaths and 102 injuries.

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