Since board meetings moved online, a question I am now asked regularly by directors, promoters and fellow Company Secretaries is this: "Can a director insist on a copy of the video recording of a board meeting?" The short answer: no provision expressly gives a director the right to a copy, and even the right to inspect the recording is not spelt out in terms. But the law requires the proceedings of Board meetings held through video conferencing to be recorded and preserved as

In recent years, enforcement orders by the MCA and SEBI have increasingly examined the role and conduct of Independent Directors when listed or large unlisted entities face governance crises. Section 149(12) of the Companies Act, 2013 affords protection only if the act or omission occurred without the director’s knowledge, deliberate consent, or connivance, and where the director acted diligently. But how is "due diligence" demonstrated before a court, tribunal, or regulator?