RMTnews :: july/august 2006 :: www.rmt.org.uk 28 The new corporate manslaughter bill: worth the wait? Maggie Robins of the Centre for Corporate Accountability asks whether a new bill will make bosses pay for workplace negligence MANSLAUGHTER: P&O ferries was acquitted of manslaughter charges over the sinking of the Herald of Free Enterprise, which capsized after leaving the port of Zeebrugge, Belgium on March 6, 1987.