This article explores a legal solution, via the legitimate expectations doctrine, to calls for reform of corporate purpose away from shareholder value maximisation and profits, towards a social corporate purpose (SCP). Such a reform would also be used to facilitate corporate human rights due...

Corporate purpose is being reimagined away from profit and shareholder value maximisation, towards a wider, more sustainable, social corporate purpose (SCP), thereby potentially involving a wider range of stakeholders in corporate governance and creating value for wider society. However, it is...

This paper argues that shadow directors, as defined in English law, ought to owe the full range of directors' duties enacted in the Companies Act 2006 (CA 2006), ss 171-177, to the relevant company under their power and control. Following the enactment of CA 2006, s 170(5), such an argument is...