General Governance

Reading Time: 3 minutes Corporate Governance is firmly established in the corporate world, indeed, for many companies it is mandatory. All companies use some form of governance to support their decision-making processes. If legal compliance is the “what” then governance can be seen as the “how”. However, the world of sport has been slower to adopt governance best practice […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes On 10 December 2018 a new corporate governance code, The Wates Corporate Governance Principles for Large Private Companies, was launched. The principles provide a framework to support a private company meet their legal requirements whilst also promoting the long-term success of the business. Sir James Wates CBE, chaired a coalition group which developed the principles.

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Seven Principles underpinning Public Life In 1994 John Major, the then Prime Minister, announced the establishment of a Committee on Standards in Public Life, under the Chairmanship of Lord Nolan. It was an independent public body set up to advise the government on ethical standards across the whole of public life in the UK.

Reading Time: 3 minutes Is it safe to speak up? What do the recent racism claims within English cricket show us about the value of good process and practices to support diversity and inclusion? The recent coverage of claims of institutional racism with English cricket highlights that governance continues to fall short within sport but what’s gone wrong and

Reading Time: 3 minutes The past 18 months have seen tremendous changes in all aspects of work and life. As we enter the post-pandemic landscape, the new normal creates a variety of paths for the Company Secretary. Work from anywhere, interim support and more traditional career development paths have created new considerations for us all when looking at a

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Code for Sports Governance (the “SG Code”) was originally launched in October 2016 and became mandatory for those organisations seeking Government and National Lottery funding from April 2017. A revised version was published in July 2021 with strengthened diversity and inclusion content and a focus on increasing transparency in this area. The SG Code

Reading Time: 3 minutes Launched in 2005, and subsequently refined and reissued, the Charity Governance Code establishes a framework of principles that will help charities of all sizes to raise the bar on their systems, processes and policies. In common with all governance frameworks, if sensitively implemented, this will improve communication and efficiencies, and help to protect the interests

Reading Time: 2 minutes Many companies concentrate their efforts on parent company governance and ignore the subsidiaries within the group. For international groups governance can be highly complex with consideration such as economic substance legislation. International regulatory compliance and filing requirements also differ from country to country so it’s important that the individual(s) managing these obligations are sufficiently skilled