Success for the Board is delivering the Agreed Goal The primary legal responsibility of the Board is to ensure that the Company achieves its agreed Goal. That is what success …

Problem ESG is a subject which we have regarded favourably over the years, believing, as we do, in a holistic approach to corporate governance, which takes account of the interests …

Governance regulation In 1991, publisher Robert Maxwell drowned, apparently having fallen from his yacht off the Canary Islands. In the chaotic aftermath, his business interests collapsed, and subsequent investigations found …

The Wates Principles for Corporate Governance Reporting in Larger Private Companies and the Survey by the University of Essex

A Review of the Dept of Business Energy & Industrial Strategy’s White Paper on Restoring Trust in Audit and Corporate Governance (UK) Introduction The British government’s Department for Business, Energy …

In recent years, as we have noted before, Corporate Governance has been, and continues to be interpreted as having a wider role than simply what directors should be doing to …

Abraaj: the story of a man who set out to change the world, or at least the part of it that he was interested in, and succeeded up to the …

How the priceless reputation of one of the world’s leading investment banks has been put at risk through ambition and greed over-riding ethics and good practice 1MDB and Goldman Sachs: …

Five years after the Dieselgate scandal, we look at what has happened at the world’s no. 1 car manufacturer, to see if anything has really changed after more than $26bn …

Last year we wrote about the dreadful way in which the pillars of the Australian banking system had been exploiting their trusting customers over many years. Eventually pressure to appoint …