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The Hampel Report

The Committee on Corporate Governance (the Hampel Committee) was established in November 1995 to review the Cadbury Committee's recommendations on corporate governance. The Hampel Committee released a preliminary report in August 1997, followed by a final report in January 1998.

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The report

Final report - Committee on Corporate Governance (January 1998)
The final recommendations from the Committee on Corporate Governance which cover the role of directors; directors' remuneration; the role of shareholders; and accountability and audit.

Background

The Committee's recommendations eventually became the Combined Code of Corporate Governance (1998). They were derived from a combination of recommendations of both the Cadbury and Greenbury Reports hence the name 'Combined Code'.

The Combined Code became the UK Corporate Governance Code in 2010. Responding to the financial crisis of 2007/8, the Code was strengthened on board diversity and risk.

eBooks

Exclusive Corporate governance - Hampel and Greenbury
  • 2007
  • Sonia Mckay, Andrea Oates, Glynis Morris
  • CIMA Publishing
  • Finance Directors Handbook
Guide to the duties of modern finance directors. Chapter 6 looks at corporate governance and summarises the Hampel and Greenbury reports.
Exclusive Corporate governance in the UK - Cadbury, Greenbury and Hampel
  • 2008
  • Alan Calder
  • Kogan Page
An introduction to governance for directors and executives. Chapter 5 looks at corporate governance in the UK and summarises the Hampel and Greenbury reports
Exclusive Introduction and background
  • 2017
  • ICSA Publishing
  • ICSA Publishing
  • The ICSA Corporate Governance Handbook
Chapter 1 looks at the development of corporate governance and specifically the history of corporate governance in the UK.
Exclusive Overview of corporate governance - The Combined Code
  • 2008
  • Alexander Davidson
  • Kogan Page
  • How the City Really Works
The key institutions, products and professions of the City of London. Chapter 25 is a overview of corporate governance and summarises the Hampel Committee and the Combined Code.
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Exclusive Corporate governance: from accountability to enterprise
  • Sep 1999
  • Alison Hull | Kevin Keasey | Helen Short | Mike Wright
Discusses the development of the corporate governance debate in the UK, including the reports of the Hampel Committee
Exclusive Corporate Governance Report: From Greenbury to Hampel - a mid-term report on developments in directors' remuneration
  • Apr 1998
  • R.W. Williams
Comments on the preliminary report of the Hampel Committee and provides data on directors' incentive and pay schemes.
Exclusive Preliminary Report of the UK Committee on Corporate Governance chaired by Sir Ronald Hampel
  • Jan 1998
Summarises the preliminary report of Great Britain's Committee on Corporate Governance chaired by Sir Ronald Hampel, dated August 1997.
Exclusive Platitudes parading as paradigms – reactions to the Preliminary Report of the UK Hampel Committee on Corporate Governance
  • Jan 1998
  • Bob Tricker
Editorial on the preliminary report of the Hampel Committee on Corporate Governance.
Exclusive Hampel Committee publishes preliminary report
  • Oct 1997
Outlines the preliminary Hampel report on reform proposals in corporate goverance, released in August 1997.
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