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Death of Isaac Rowlinson
Linda Wise, a nanny, was accused of murdering 13-month-old Isaac Rowlinson at his home in Penwortham on 23 July 2007 but had the charge she faces reduced to manslaughter.
The incidents are alleged to have taken place between August 13 and 21 August 2006, and on or between 21 August and 4 September 2006.
A hearing at Liverpool Crown Court was told the Crown had decided to reduce the charge from murder to manslaughter.
No plea was entered by Mrs Wise.
A trial is expected to take place at Liverpool Crown Court starting 23 June 2008.
Deaths of Claire Furmedge and Elizabeth Collings
Claire Furmedge and Elizabeth Collings died in an incident at Riverside Park in Chester-le-Street in July 2006 when a Dreamscape inflatable sculpture became airborne while a further 27 were injured.
In February 2008 charges of manslaughter were brought against Maurice Agis, 76, a renowned London-based artist. Mr Agis answered police bail at Charing Cross police station and was charged with gross negligence manslaughter.
Mr Agis will also face a charge under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Chester-le-Street District Council, the council's director of development services, Tony Galloway, and Liverpool-based promotions company Brouhaha International have also been charged with breaches of the Health and Safety at Work Act.
All were summoned to appear before Peterlee Magistrates' Court on February 26 2008. On 26 February Mr Agis was granted unconditional bail by magistrates. He is due to appear at Newcastle Crown Court on 5 March 2008.
Deaths of Christina Toner, Yi Di Lin and John Carruthers
Passengers Christina and Yi died in a coach near Heathrow Airport in January 2007 while John, another passenger, died in hospital on 1 July.
A National Express coach driver has denied causing the deaths of the three passengers by dangerous driving. Philip Rooney, from Lanarkshire, was driving the London-to-Aberdeen service when it overturned on the M4/M25 slip road.
Mr Rooney pleaded not guilty to three counts when he appeared at Reading Magistrates' Court in January 2008.
He was bailed to appear at Oxford Crown Court on 8 September ahead of a trial on 27 October 2008.
Death of Peter Weighman
Six weeks have been set aside for the trial at Carlisle Crown Court of Peter Fisher, a former West Cumberland Hospital psychiatrist, for the alleged manslaughter of a patient Peter Weighman.
Mr Fisher previously entered a not guilty plea at Carlisle Crown Court.
Whitehaven detectives have spent several months in New Zealand gathering background information for what is set to be a complex case.
The prosecution alleges manslaughter through negligence.
Death of Alex Mitchell
Alex, a 14-year-old girl, died from carbon monoxide poisoning after Scott Lee Stuart, a gas fitter, incorrectly installed a flueless gas fire in her family home.
Cardiff Crown Court heard how Stuart, who ran Stuart Plumbing and Heating Services, failed to check that the gas pressure on the appliance was set at the correct level, which led to a leak. He was registered to fit central heating boilers but not flueless gas fires.
On the day she died, Alex had been at home alone with the family pet dog. When her mother Ann returned home from work she found the terrier dead in the hall. She then ran upstairs where she found her daughter's body in her bedroom.
Stuart will be sentenced in October.
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