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Following on from our overview of the Companies Act 2014 (the “Act”), in this publication we set out the new requirements for large companies to form an audit committee.

Under common law directors occupy a fiduciary role in relation to companies. Directors are required to act in good faith in the interests of the company and this duty is owed to the company as a whole rather than to the individual members of the company. The equitable and common law principles relating to directors’ duties are specified and codified in Part 5 of the Companies Act 2014 (hereafter the “Act”) and became effective as of the commencement of the Act on 1 June 2015.