We begin this edition with two important cases on the scope of directors' duties. The first is the Supreme Court's long-awaited judgment in Sequana, which clarifies that directors need to consider the interests of creditors when facing an insolvency. Our Corporate Team explain its implications and set out practical considerations for directors. In the second, our Finance and Banking Disputes Team discuss the Court of Appeal's recent decision in Barclay-Watt regarding the prospect of personal liability for directors following the mis-selling of investments by the company.
Keeping with company directors, we also have articles on: promoting gender diversity in the boardroom; new government proposals to ban UK companies from having corporate directors; and how a director accused of wrongdoing can claim for the cost of legal fees under the company's D&O policy.
Finally, it's been 5 years since Alyssa Milano's Tweet sparked the #MeToo movement in 2017. My Employment partners, Joanna Blackburn and Susannah Kintish, have produced a podcast in which they discuss what has (and has not) changed since then when it comes to sexual harassment in the workplace.