CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY - Key Persons


Alan Dalton

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
He has worked on occupational and environmental health and safety for over 20 years. He is author of, Asbestos: The Killer Dust and Safety, Environmental Hazards in the Workplace (Cassells, 1998) He was the Health and Safety Officer of the Transport and General Workers Union for two years. He is now a Director of the Environment Agency.

Alan Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Director

Alan James Mark

Job Titles:
  • Director

Ana-Maria Pascal

Job Titles:
  • CCA STAFF Member
  • Director
UK Director She has been at the CCA since January 2005 and has recently taken on the role of UK Director. She is responsible for the financial and administrative managment of the CCA, as well as some areas of policy and research. She has a PhD and an MBA with specialisation in Finance.

Ann Jones

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
She is a teacher and the mother of Simon Jones who died on his first day of work at Shoreham Docks in April 1998. The Crown Prosecution Service only agreed to charge Euromin and its managing director for the manslaughter of Simon after Anne and her family launched a judicial review against the Crown Prosecution Service.

Charles Woolfson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
He is a lecturer at Glasgow University, and runs a course on 'Corporate Crime and Governance', for law and business students. He is the co-author of Paying for the Piper: Capital and Labour in Britain's Offshore Oil Industry (Mansell 1996), and Piper Alpha Ten Years After (TMV Centre, Oslo, 1998) He is Secretary of the Scottish Occupational Health and Safety Research Network.

Christopher Shute

Christopher Shute died at the Ford factory in Wide Lane, Swathling on 17th August 2000. Mr Shute was killed when he fell into an emulsion paint overspray capture tank (EPOC) used to collect excess paint from spray booths on the transit van production line.

Conor Foley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors

David Bergman

Job Titles:
  • CCA STAFF Member
  • Executive Director
Executive Director. He has worked at the CCA since its establishment in 1999. He is responsible for the overall strategic direction of the Centre, the supervision of the casework, and the Centre's work with the Nuffield Foundation. He is also responsible for the international work carried out by the CCA.

Deborah Coles

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Chair
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Director of the Pressure Group INQUEST
For over ten years, Deborah Coles has been a Director of the pressure group INQUEST which campaigns against deaths in police custody.

Dr Courtney Davis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
She is a Research Fellow at the University of Sussex and is currently conducting international comparative research on the regulation of medicines safety in the UK and the US. She has also undertaken research on the regulation of occupational health and safety in the UK.Conor Foley

Dr. Dave Whyte

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer
Dr. Dave Whyte is Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Stirling where he teaches courses on, and researches criminology and criminal justice. His specialisms are in corporate crime, health and safety crime and the regulation of business. He has published numerous book chapters and scholarly articles on those topics, in journals such as 'Policy and Politics', 'Journal of Law and Society', and 'Policy and Practice in Heath and Safety'. His most recent major publication is 'Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful' (Peter Lang, 2003 with Steve Tombs).

George Falconer Bisset

Job Titles:
  • Director

John Horner

Job Titles:
  • Director

John Rigby

Job Titles:
  • CCA STAFF Member
Death Monitoring: He is responsible for updating our website with details of work-place deaths. He works at the CCA for one day a week.

John Speight

In March 2000, Roger Jackson (43), Director of Easy Moss Products LTD was convicted for the manslaughter of John Speight (25), a worker with special needs, who was crushed to death in February 1998 when he fell from a cage which was being lifted on a forklift truck (FLT). He received a 12 month sentence, suspended for two years. He was also convicted of two health and safety offences and fined £10,000.

Julian Clothier

Job Titles:
  • Director

Julie Bowles

Job Titles:
  • Director

Keith Arthur Stait

Job Titles:
  • Name of Director

Lee Harper - Managing Director

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director

Louise Christian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
She is one of the country's leading civil right lawyers and for many years has acted on behalf of families bereaved as a result of work-related deaths and disasters. She was the solicitor in the private manslaughter prosecution of South Coast Shipping over the Marchioness disaster, and was involved in the successful judicial review of the Crown Prosecution Service's decision against prosecuting the managing director of a company in relation to the death of 24 year old Simon Jones.

Maninder Jalaf

Job Titles:
  • CCA STAFF Member
CCA Caseworker. Maninder is the caseworker at the CCA. He completed his CPE and has worked previously as a paralegal at the law firm Bindmans.

Melvyn Spree

Job Titles:
  • Director

Mick Holder

Job Titles:
  • CCA STAFF Member
Death Monitoring: He is responsible for monitoring work-related deaths. He works at the CCA for one day a week.

Mr A Turness

Job Titles:
  • Name of Director

Mr Abdulwaheed Abidoye

Job Titles:
  • Director of Beckon Contancting Ltd

Najma RASUL

Job Titles:
  • Solicitor at Bhatt Murphy Solicitors
Najma is a trainee solicitor at Bhatt Murphy Solicitors. Prior to taking on her traineeship she was the Centre's first Caseworker for a two year period.

Nicholas Cary Martin

Job Titles:
  • Name of Director

Norman Holt

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director of David Holt Plastics

Peter Kite

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Its Managing Director

Piero Scacco

Director of company failed to ensure the safety at work of all of its employees, in that he failed to provide a safe system of work for the maintenance of a dough mixing machine at which one person died and another was injured

Prof. Steve TOMBS - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Professor of Sociology
He is a Professor of Sociology in the Centre for Criminal Justice, John Moores University. He is a co-author of of Toxic Capitalism: Corporate Crime and the Chemical industry (Ashgate, 1998) and of Corporate Crime (Longman, 1999). He has taught, researched and published widely in the area of corporate crime, occupational and environmental safety, and corporate social responsibility. Steve Tombs is a Professor of Sociology in the School of Social Science at Liverpool John Moores University. He has a long-standing interest in the incidence, nature and regulation of corporate crime, and the regulation and management of health and safety at work. Since 1999, he has been researching the control of corporate crime in Finland. His other main, current research interest is in the Politics of Knowledge. His most recent publications are Beyond Criminology? Taking Harm Seriously (Pluto Press, 2004, co-edited with Dave Gordon, Paddy Hillyard and Christina Pantazis) and Unmasking the Crimes of the Powerful: scrutinising states and corporations (Peter Lang, 2003, co-written with with Dave Whyte). He is also co-author of Corporate Crime (Longman, 1999), co-written with Gary Slapper.

Richard Tudway - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer
  • Economist
Richard Tudway is an economist with experience of international finance. He currently teaches at Huron University USA in London. He has a particular interest in corporate social responsiblity and directors responsibilities.

Roger Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director of Easy Moss Products LTD

Stephanie TROTTER

She is the director of Co-Gas Safety, a charity concerned with carbon monoxide deaths.

Stephen Bowles

Job Titles:
  • Director

Surinder Singh Nahal

Job Titles:
  • Director of Skyglass Limited He

William Barry Cox

Job Titles:
  • Construction