18 December, 2020
Pay ratio reports: boards challenged to reveal how they will use data
The High Pay Centre has urged boards to explain how they will use the information gathered for pay ratio reports and renewed calls for legislation to introduce workers on boards. Researchers from t...
19 November, 2020
Roadmap to mandatory TCFD reporting ‘should focus minds’
When it comes to mandatory climate-related risk reporting there isn’t as much time as recent headlines might suggest. The government has said the legal framework to make it compulsory will be in pla...
12 November, 2020
UK seeks powers to block foreign investment on national security grounds
Just as observers expect M&A activity to spike becaus...
3 November, 2020
Brussels pushes ahead with project for new European governance
Efforts by the European Commission to introduce new corporate governance laws have stepped up a gear, with a fresh consultation proposing mandatory human rights due diligence and new obligations on co...
28 October, 2020
Governance experts call for US Stakeholder Capitalism Act
The US debate over the future of capitalism continues to flare with a proposal for new legislation that would shift companies away from “shareholder primacy” and into the realm of “stakeholder g...
26 October, 2020
Legal CSR measures are ‘fraught with conceptual contradictions’
Does enshrining corporate social responsibility (CSR) in law work? A new study of examples from around the world reveals mixed results, with room for improvement in most jurisdictions. And it sugge...
3 July, 2020
Companies Act duties ‘need testing in the courts’ to improve governance
New legislation will not be needed for corporate governance reform resulting from a move to a stakeholder capitalism model, says a leading academic. In an
2 June, 2020
Internal investigations are on the rise—but are they robust enough?
Companies today are under greater scrutiny than perhaps ever before. As a consequence there has been marked increase in the number of companies conducting their own internal investigations, caused by ...
25 February, 2020
Bank of England economist Andy Haldane enters stakeholder debate
When a central banker talks about an issue, it has for all intents and purposes hit the mainstream. This week, the Bank of England’s chief economist Andy Haldane began to talk about the need to shif...
20 February, 2020
