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Submission to ‘Transparency and trust: enhancing the transparency of UK company ownership and increasing trust in UK business’ (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills)

Partner resource

This briefing by CORE and the Environmental Law Service relates to the UK government’s Department for Business, Innovation and Skill’s Company Ownership Transparency and Trust Discussion Paper, Q.39: The merits of strengthening responsibilities of banking directors by amending the directors’ duties in CA06 to create a primary duty to promote financial stability over the interests...

September 13th, 2013

Companies Act Corporate governance directors' duties

Legal Aid briefing: Lords’ report stage

Briefing

CORE called for amendments to be made to this Bill to ensure that it would not undermine the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Despite this it was passed unchanged, giving irresponsible multinational corporations more power to violate the rights of poor and vulnerable communities in developing countries with impunity.

May 3rd, 2012

Legal Aid briefing: Lords’ third reading

Briefing

The Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders (LASPO) Bill reached its 3rd reading in the House of Lords in April 2011. CORE called for the Bill to be amended to safeguard access to justice for victims of corporate human rights abuses.

March 22nd, 2012

Implications of the Jackson reforms for human rights cases against multinational companies

Report

Following a review by Lord Justice Jackson in 2009, the UK government proposed wide-ranging reforms to the costs regime for civil litigation. This briefing note explains the negative consequences of the reforms for human rights court cases against multinational corporations. Download the briefing »

March 5th, 2012

Reality of Rights: barriers to accessing remedies when business operates beyond borders

Report

CORE & The London School of Economics (LSE) review examples from Kenya, India, Bangladesh, Georgia and Nigeria, and demonstrate how political, social and economic obstacles leave victims of alleged human rights violations without remedy.

May 25th, 2011

A Starter for 10

Report

Ten of the key issues, opportunities and discussion points on UK business, human rights and the environment, based on the premise that there is no single silver bullet to improving UK businesses’ human rights and environmental impacts.

April 21st, 2011 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Why the UK needs a Commission for Business, Human Rights and the Environment

Report

CORE is proposing a new body to address the human rights and environmental impacts of UK companies when operating abroad. This briefing explains why and what it could look like.

April 15th, 2011 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Simply Put: Towards an Effective UK Regime for Environmental and Social Reporting By Companies

Report

Simply Put provides an expert analysis of how the current legal framework is failing and what changes need to be made to the existing social and environmental corporate reporting regime.

March 23rd, 2011 | by Corporate Justice Coalition and Partners

Filling the Gap: a new body to investigate, sanction and provide remedies for abuses committed by UK companies abroad

Report

The aim of this report is to try to identify a way of “filling the gap” between, on the one hand, a series of relatively toothless soft law and self-regulatory initiatives, and, on the other hand, a domestic civil liability system which, though well established, is fraught with difficulty for claimants and is too easily manipulated by companies seeking to avoid liability.

December 25th, 2008 | by Corporate Justice Coalition