ABSTRACT
On 22nd June 1989, a summons was issued, by the DPP, alleging reckless manslaughter by seven defendants, from the assistant bosun to director level and by the company itself, P&O European Ferries. The DPP, Mr Allan Greene, having decided against bringing charges for individual or corporate reckless manslaughter, after the disaster now ordered a criminal investigation by Kent Police, following the unlawful killing verdict in the Coroner’s Court in November 1987. At a hearing in July 1990, P&O lost their argument that manslaughter could not be committed on the part of a corporation since it was not a natural person.
