What We Do
The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) is the professional qualifying body for company secretaries. ICSA works closely with governmental and regulatory bodies to promote and support best practice in all areas of corporate governance and, through its subsidiary companies, provides information and training, boardroom evaluation and software.
ICSA Guidance to the Act
Courses
Publications
Guidance Notes
- Electronic communications
- Proper purpose
- Indirect Investors - Information Rights and Voting
- Directors' duties
- Corporate representatives and proxies at general meetings
Press releases
- Government adopts ICSA's views on proper purpose - 13 December 2007
- Articles of Association - 19 December 2007
- ICSA publishes new guidance note on directors duties - 14 January 2008
- ICSA publishes new guidance on proxies and corporate representatives -27 January 2008
- ICSA publishes revised guidance on proper purpose 22 January 2009
Commentary
This section consists of links to the Focus supplements on the Companies Act which have been published alongside Chartered Secretary as well as links to articles about the Companies Act that have been published in the magazine. The Focus supplements provide a handy quick reference guide to the Act. To access them, click on the link below and then use the left hand navigation menu to scroll between the sections.
- Chartered Secretary Focus supplement - January 2007
- Chartered Secretary Focus supplement - July 2007
To access the articles below for free you need to register on the Chartered Secretary website at www.charteredsecretary.net
2007
- 'Balancing Interests' - Interview with Margaret Hodge, Chartered Secretary February 2007 issue
- 'The double whammy' - Article on derivative actions by Rita Dattani, Senior Lawyer at Norton Rose. Chartered Secretary March 2007 issue
- ‘Open access' - Article on company communications to shareholders, Chartered Secretary, March 2007 issue
- 'Forward Motion' - Article on implementation timetable, Chartered Secretary April 2007 issue
- 'Sweeties from strangers' - Article on conflict of interest duties by Rita Dattani, Senior Lawyer at Norton Rose, Chartered Secretary, April 2007 issue
- A smooth transition'- Article by Tom Smith, Customer Delivery Director, Companies House, Chartered Secretary, April 2007 issue
- 'Political resolve' - Article on Companies Act regime on political donations and expenditure, Vanessa Knapp, Partner at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Chartered Secretary May 2007 issue
- 'New man at the helm' - Interview with Gareth Jones OBE, the recently appointed CEO of Companies House, Chartered Secretary, June 2007 issue
- 'A robust constitution' - Article on the constitution of companies by Nilufer von Bismarck, Partner at Slaughter and May, Chartered Secretary, July 2007 issue
- 'A robust constitution' - Article on the constitution of companies by Nilufer von Bismarck, Partner at Slaughter and May, Chartered Secretary, July 2007 issue
- 'A robust constitution' - Article on the constitution of companies by Nilufer von Bismarck, Partner at Slaughter and May, Chartered Secretary, July 2007 issue
- Companies House lays out Registrars' Rules - July 2007
- 'The common touch' - Article on directors' duties by Carol Shutkever at Herbert Smith LLP, Chartered Secretary, August issue
- 'Under pressure' - Article on the Final Report of the Davies' review of the issuer liability regime by William Booth, Chartered Secretary, August issue
- 'The Registrar rules, OK' - Article on the introduction of the new Registrar's rules by Phil Coates, Chartered Secretary, September issue
- Failing to prepare' - Article on how far businesses are prepared for October implementation, Chartered Secretary, October issue - (note this is a downloadable PDF and is not on the CS site)
2008
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