The government proposal to force large public companies to publish the pay ratio between their CEO and average UK workers has caused a stir in the Governance and Compliance/Core community.

Last February, we published a guide to the 2010 AGM season which considered the implementation of the Shareholder Rights Directive and the final sections of the Companies Act 2006 and the effects of these on your AGM and articles of association.

Boards need to develop skills for competent stewardship and to be made aware of the personal impact of fines, government inquiries and political censure for dereliction of duty

Following the publication of the new corporate governance code and changes in rules requiring AIM Companies to adopt a corporate governance code, public companies, regardless of size, are now expected to focus on...

The five-year summary of Lord Davies' women on boards review, ‘Improving the gender balance on British boards', was published in October 2015...

On 29 November, the UK Government published its long-awaited Green Paper on corporate governance reform.

he documents were first published in 2021 by the CGI (under its previous name, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators or ICSA), as part of its final report on the effectiveness...

‘Directors sometimes give the impression they are the finished article. They are not. Things change,' said Peter Swabey, ICSA's policy and research director.

The chief irony of the debate on diversity in the workplace, from the shop floor to the boardroom, is just how clouded by groupthink the whole exercise is, at least when it comes to public statements ...

Writing in The Times this August, business columnist Alexandra Frean said a ‘shocking' lack of racial and ethnic diversity means that companies are missing out on talent.

Corporate culture has become a significant consideration in the drive to improve governance. Following the financial crash, there has been a concerted effort to improve the culture in the banking sector, something that has ...

Dividend rule breaches can cause reputational damage and disillusion shareholders.

The aftermath of recent corporate financial failures has led many to question the audit process

The Higgs report may be 15 years' old but its recommendations, with very few exceptions, still underpin our thinking on board composition and non-executive director effectiveness today.

Despite female participation in the workforce increasing and research indicating that diverse teams are more likely to achieve better business outcomes ...

The company secretary at Beach & Associates talks about her career pathway and how her role has changed

The recommendations from the latest UK Corporate Governance Code and FRC Guidance pose some interesting challenges for governance within the developing NHS landscape

The notice convening the Institute's 2017 annual general meeting was issued in August.

In the first case of its kind, in Furlong v Chief Constable of Cheshire, an Employment Tribunal (ET) found a police force's recruitment process had directly discriminated against a white, heterosexual, male applicant.

The UK equalities watchdog aims to start action against 100% of those flouting reporting requirement within year of deadline