Maw on Corporate Governance

Directors' duties - the legal requirements; directors as investors, directors as insiders; the company board; the board and management; the financial organs of corporate governance; the company and its financiers; pension schemes and their governance; corporate governance and the environment; the role of communications in corporate governance; corporate govenance abroad and overseas practices and influences; the work of the Cadbuy committee; the way ahead. Appendices: suggested code of practice; proforma letter of appointment for non-executive directors; suggested proforma code as to dealing transactions in market securities; checklist for new directors (before accepting appointment); aide memoire for compiling a schedule of matters to be reserved for the approval of the board.