St James Ethics Centre, Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, ‘2004 Corporate Responsibility Index’, (4 April 2005); Corporate Responsibility Index <www.corporate-responsibility.com.au/default.asp> at 2 August 2005.
6.
FordHaroldAustinR PRamsayIan, Ford's Principles of Corporations Law (12th ed, 2005) 341.
7.
See, eg, Walker v Wimborne (1976) 137 CLR 1, 7; Ford, AustinRamsay, above n 6, 351.
8.
Kokotovich Constructions Pty Limited v Wallington (1995) 17 ACSR 478, 490; Permanent Building Society (in liq) v Wheeler (1994) ACSR 109, 137.
9.
HeathWilliam, ‘Directors’ Duties and Corporate Governance' (2000) 18Company and Securities Law Journal377; BlackAshley, ‘Officers — Duty of Good Faith under s 181’ in Australian Corporations Law — Principles and Practice (Vol 1) (2004) 32, 281.
10.
Black, above n 9, 25.
11.
WilsonTherese, ‘The “Best Interests of the Company” and Corporate Social Responsibility’ (Paper presented at the Corporations Law Teachers Association Conference, Sydney, 7 February 2005), 2.
12.
BlairMargaretStoutLynn, ‘A Team Production Theory of Corporate Law’ (1999) 85(2) Virginia Law Review247, 249–250 and 271.
13.
FordAustinRamsay, above n 6, 29.
14.
ParkinsonJohn, Corporate Power and Responsibility: Issues in the Theory of Company Law (1994), cited in Wilson, above n 11, 3–4.
15.
Ibid.
16.
Ibid.
17.
Wilson, above n 11, 5.
18.
Ibid.
19.
On the ‘citizenship’ of corporations, see CorcoranSuzanne, ‘The Corporation as Citizen and as Government: Social Responsibility and Corporate Morality’ (1997) (2) Flinders Journal of Law Reform53, 55–57.
20.
BrennanGerardSir, ‘Law, Values and Charity’ (2002) 76Australian Law Journal492, 497.
21.
See, eg, the companies referred to in Wilson, above n 11, 5–8.
22.
See, eg, AAP, ‘20,000 Demand Action from James Hardie’, Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney), 15 September 2004.
British Department of Trade and Industry, Modernising Company Law, ‘PART II — Modernising Company Law: The Government's Policy’ [4.31] <www.dti.gov.uk> at 2 August 2005.
