Trackers and timelines

This subtopic provides tools for corporate lawyers wishing to follow developments in specific areas of corporate practice, as well as more general legal developments.

Cases

We maintain Practice Note: Case tracker—2025—Corporate for the latest key cases relevant to corporate practitioners.

For prior years, see Practice Notes:

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Case tracker—2024—Corporate [Archived]
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Case tracker—2023—Corporate [Archived]
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Case tracker—2022—Corporate [Archived]
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Case tracker—2021—Corporate [Archived]
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Case tracker—2020—Corporate [Archived]
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Case tracker—2019—Corporate [Archived]
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Case tracker—2018—Corporate [Archived]

Economic crime and corporate transparency

The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023) received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023 and is currently being brought into force over a series of commencement dates. ECCTA 2023 seeks to deliver a wide range of reforms to increase transparency in relation to a company’s structure and management and to improve the integrity of the information held at Companies House.

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Latest Corporate News

IA reconfirms 2026 executive pay principles with refinements to implementation

The Investment Association (IA) has reconfirmed its flexible approach to executive remuneration in its Principles of Remuneration for 2026 and has identified five areas for improved implementation. The principles, representing views of investors managing £10trn in assets, maintain that companies can adapt pay structures to suit their business strategy when accompanied by suitable explanations. The IA specified refinements including requirements for more company-specific rationales, earlier benchmarking transparency, continued caution on hybrid schemes, retention of bonus deferral mechanisms even after shareholding guidelines are met, and restrictions on retrospective changes to in-flight awards except in exceptional circumstances with shareholder consultation. The approach to non-executive director remuneration remains unchanged, with performance-related pay deemed inappropriate for independent directors.

FRC publishes final annual review under 2018 Corporate Governance Code

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) published its annual review of Corporate Governance Reporting, assessing 100 UK-listed companies against the 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code for the final time before transitioning to the 2024 Code. The review found that 25 companies disclosed deviations from Code provisions, most frequently concerning audit committee composition, the independence of the chair, and tenure. Notably, many companies provided substantive explanations for their chosen approaches. Additionally, over half of the companies referenced measures being taken to prepare for the new Provision 29 on risk management and internal controls, which will come into effect for financial years beginning on 1 January 2026.

Corporate weekly highlights—13 November 2025

This week's edition of Corporate weekly highlights includes: the FRC’s release of a report to support the transition to the UK Stewardship Code 2026, the EU Commission’s publication of a ‘quick fix’ Regulation postponing certain sustainability disclosure requirements published in the Official Journal, and details of the case of Friend Media Technology Systems Ltd and another v Friend and another company which concerned breaches of restrictive covenants and director fiduciary duties.

European Parliament adopt position on sustainability omnibus, including major change to CSRD scope

The European Parliament has adopted its negotiating position on proposals to simplify EU sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements, streamline qualitative disclosures, and make sector-specific reporting voluntary. Under the proposals, smaller companies would not be required to provide information to larger business partners unless identified as posing a specific risk.