Are the doors of Britain’s boardrooms coming off their hinges?

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Are the doors of Britain’s boardrooms coming off their hinges?

The once very private proceedings of boards of directors, both in financial services and more generally, now seem to be under the spotlights of continuous media and regulatory attention. Directors’ accountability for standards of corporate governance is being scrutinised in individual cases such as RBS and Barclays and more generally in relation to vexed issues such as remuneration policies and practices and board and employee diversity.

 “Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as others see us” said Robert Burns and such constant consideration of how what we do is or may be seen by others is key both to being a good professional and to good governance....