Topics for discussion

Corporate

  • Accounting
  • Annual general meetings/general meetings
  • Boardroom behaviours
  • Board issues – practices, management, compliance, evaluation, diversity
  • Boiler room fraud
  • Combined Code (UK Corporate Governance Code)
  • Companies House regulations
  • Company Law – we have a considerable amount of expertise on Companies Act 2006
  • Compliance
  • Competition Law
  • Corporate governance
  • Corporate manslaughter
  • Corporate social responsibility
  • Dematerialisation of share certificates
  • Directors – duties, roles and responsibilities, non-executive directors
  • Health and safety
  • Human resources
  • Higgs review
  • Insurance – directors, officers and indemnity insurance
  • Money laundering
  • Pensions
  • Remuneration
  • Resolutions
  • Risk management
  • Rules and regulations – DTRs, Listing Rules, AIM Rules
  • Share option schemes
  • Terms of reference – audit remuneration, nomination committees
  • Walker Review

Not-for-profit

  • Accountability
  • Administration
  • Board inductions
  • Board performance
  • Charity Commission
  • Charity mergers
  • Codes of conduct
  • Conflicts of interest
  • Conscience of the company
  • Ethics
  • Governance
  • Impact reporting
  • Regulation
  • Role descriptions
  • Role and responsibility of the company secretary in a not-for-profit organisation
  • Role of governors
  • Service users
  • Stakeholder engagement, representation
  • Trusteeship – duties, liabilities, roles, recruitment, appointment, appraisal, payment etc.
  • Transparency
  • Whistleblowing