Contents

Moving forward

Guidance on Board Effectiveness

Earlier this year, the Financial Reporting Council published guidance to encourage the boards of listed companies to consider how they can lead their companies more effectively.

EC Green Paper

A comparison of some of the European Confederation of Directors’ Associations and the UK Financial Reporting Council responses to the EC Green Paper on a Corporate Governance Framework for EU listed companies.

Corporate Governance Code for SMEs in Dubai

Electronic board papers

A year to remember

Cas Sydorowitz and Kirsten van Rooijen summarise Georgeson’s Dutch 2011 AGM review.

New directors and behaviours needed

Professor Colin Coulson-Thomas looks at the skills needed to be an affective director and argues that corporate boards could learn a lot from the way boards in the third sector perform.

Sensation and drama

Richard Smerdon considers some key corporate governance issues which have arisen over the past few months.