Company strategy and board member attitudes are often shaped by personal finance considerations, especially in family businesses. IHT changes are crystallising the issue.

What do you do when the Chair starts sweating every news item and micromanaging the exec's decisions?

Our straw poll of the big issues. This month: emissions reporting and management.

What's coming up at CGIUKI

When the going gets tough, the tough... run to the exit? (How's your succession planning?)

No-one is coming out of the Sentebale story looking good. But beyond the finger-pointing PR war, there are some obvious governance failures. The red flag? Trustee tenures.

The introduction of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (“ECCTA”) and its “failure to prevent fraud” offence marks a significant shift in how businesses must operate to avoid legal repercussions and maintain their integrity

Habibunnisha Patel is General Counsel & Company Secretary at Cancer Research UK. She trained as an M&A lawyer and spent 10 years at Slaughter & May before building a portfolio career in international development. Her first General Counsel & Company Secretary role was at Save the Children UK – and she moved to her current role in 2022

At Governance Jersey 2025 this month, Dr Scarlett Brown, Susan Fadil and Adam Jeffries will discuss how AI is already behind the scenes in governance - and how we proceed safely from here