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Directors' remuneration - UK government consultation on binding shareholders votes

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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United Kingdom
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May 2 2012

On 14 March 2012 the government issued a consultation paper that changes the framework for directors' remuneration for UK-listed companies

Marks and Spencer and contractors fined for asbestos breaches

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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United Kingdom
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November 28 2011

Marks and Spencer plc and three of its contractors have recently received heavy fines for putting members of the public, staff and contractors at risk when it removed asbestos-containing materials (ACMs

Whistleblowing

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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United Kingdom
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June 24 2011

This briefing summarises the key facts that employers in the UK need to know about whistleblowing and codes of conduct

Women on boards

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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United Kingdom
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June 20 2011

Quoted companies are coming under increasing pressure to address the issue of gender diversity in their boardrooms and in the senior management of their organisations

Company sentenced for corporate manslaughter

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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United Kingdom
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April 18 2011

Following an extensive investigation, Cotswold Geotech (Holdings) Limited was recently found guilty of corporate manslaughter, in the first case and conviction of its kind

Uk Corporate Governance Code

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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United Kingdom
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July 6 2010

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has published the new UK Corporate Governance Code, which replaces the 2008 Combined Code for accounting periods beginning on or after 29 June 2010

Remuneration within listed companies a new year review

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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United Kingdom
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February 17 2010

The issue of how the pay recommendations for the financial sector (as set out in the final recommendations of the Walker Review published in November 2009) should influence the wider listed company sector has been addressed by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) in the publication, in December 2009, of:the FRC's Final Report on its 2009 Review of the Combined Code; and revised ABI Guidelines on Executive Remuneration together with a Position Paper to supplement the guidelines and provide some practical guidance to remuneration committees

Corporate manslaughter: consultation sentencing guideline published

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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United Kingdom
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December 14 2009

The Sentencing Guidelines Council recently published a consultation guideline on sentencing organisations convicted of corporate manslaughter and health and safety offences that cause death

Directors’ pay packages

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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United Kingdom
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January 26 2009

The damage that the recession is doing to UK plcs and the wider economy will influence executive pay decisions over the next few months