However, the government has delayed the legislation amid business unease about the concept of corporate killing.
But if evidence existed, firms such as tobacco companies, could face action under a new "corporate killing" law.
Mr Straw said he would consider extending the law to include criminal sanctions against individual, named directors, but only as part of a separate charge from corporate killing and only in cases where there was direct evidence implicating the person.
By the time I'd grasped the concept (underachieving businessman is overassisted by an ex-soldier who takes corporate "killing" all too literally), I'd stashed the set back in its cabinet.
Ministers have also decided that, besides the crown prosecution service, the health and safety executive, and the civil aviation authority should be allowed to investigate and prosecute in corporate killing cases.
The lesser verdict was the only sanction available after July, when the judge had thrown out more serious charges of corporate manslaughter levelled at three of Network Rail's former employees and two of Balfour Beatty's.Campaigners seized on the outcome as further proof that the laws that govern corporate killing need reform.
Areas of documents leaked thus far have covered government, trade, corporate, war, killings, torture, detention, suppression of free speech and free press, diplomacy, spying, counter-intelligence, ecology, climate, nature, sciences, corruption, finances, taxes, trading, censorship and internet filtering, cults, religious organizations, abuse, violence, violations.
And that could hurt Mr. Romney more than his opponents' attempts to portray him as a job-killing corporate raider.
BEDFORD, N.H. — Mitt Romney fought to keep an upper hand in the Republican presidential race on Tuesday as his rivals sought to slow his march to the nomination and raise doubts about his electability by branding him as a job-killing corporate villain.
Even in the GOP primaries, Mitt Romney's opponents attacked him as a job-killing corporate plutocrat.
