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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)

Briefing

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 of shareholders.

September 13th, 2013

Companies Act and Company Law Corporate governance Responses

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

Modernising Company Law: meeting the stakeholders challenge

Briefing

A briefing arguing that UK Company Law must reflect the interests of affected stakeholders, not just shareholders.

September 25th, 2005 | by Corporate Justice Coalition

Company law reporting shareholders

From Red Tape to Road Signs

Briefing

This booklet challenges the anti-regulation assertions made by business and provides a better understanding of what ‘red tape’ really is.

November 1st, 2004 | by Corporate Justice Coalition