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 …
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 …
Revolut has struggled to break into mainstream banking amid accounting uncertainties, failing to win a UK banking licence. But with an EU licence, allowing it to participate in the ECB’s …
The background: privatisation of water infrastructure For the first seventy years of the 20th century, the supply of drinking water and sewage removal was regarded as a public good, and …
Role of the Board As we have stressed many times, the primary legal responsibility of the board of directors is to ensure that the company on whose board they sit …
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 …
The problem with ESG 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 …
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 …
