More than a third of City lawyers back controversial Government plans to make corporate chiefs more accountable for deaths caused by their companies’ failings, according to a new poll.

Thirty-eight percent of respondents in the latest Legal Week/ EJ Legal Big Question survey of more than 100 commercial lawyers said that the Government should introduce long-delayed legislation on corporate killing. Sixty-two percent opposed such a move.

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