LensReading which lens this session carries.

Delegated authority

Authority Register

Autonomy is only safe if somebody wrote down what each agent and each person is allowed to decide.

Health

What the estate is currently allowed to do

Grants in force, who holds them, how often they are used and how often they are exceeded.

LG10-AUTH-H1

Director, Legal Operations · Legal · Outside Counsel Management

Anything the agent grant refuses, plus any override of an agent outcome.

Decision type
Approve, override and release held work on the outside counsel management lines
Materiality cap
$25,000,000
Band
Critical
Jurisdictions
US · UK · DE · SG · AU
Delegated from
Legal leadership (Function leader)
Granted
2026-04-15
Expires
2027-04-10
Uses, last 30 days
259
Cap breaches, 30 days
0
Conditions attached
  • Cannot approve a unit the same person raised.
  • Override requires a written rationale citing the policy clause relied on.
  • Expiry is enforced, not advisory: an expired grant refuses.
If the cap is exceededThe action is refused and routed to the function leader with the attempted decision recorded.

11 grants

Select any row to see the conditions, the delegation chain and how it has been used

Low 31Medium 104High 123Critical 51
ReferenceHolderDecision typeCapJurisdictionsDelegated fromExpiresUses 30dStatus
LG5-AUTH-H1
Regulatory Affairs
VP Regulatory Affairs
accountable-owner
Approve, override and release held work on the regulatory affairs lines$2,000kUS UK DELegal leadership2026-09-30227Active
LG8-AUTH-H1
Employment Legal
Associate General Counsel, Employment
accountable-owner
Approve, override and release held work on the employment legal lines$250kUS UK DE SG AU FR BRLegal leadership2027-07-1928Active
LG2-AUTH-H1
Commercial Advisory
Associate General Counsel, Commercial
accountable-owner
Approve, override and release held work on the commercial advisory lines$2,000kUS UK DE SG AU FRLegal leadership2026-10-29142Active
LG4-AUTH-H1
Compliance & Ethics
Chief Compliance Officer
accountable-owner
Approve, override and release held work on the compliance & ethics lines$2,000kUS UK DE SGLegal leadership2027-01-11237Active
LG6-AUTH-H1
IP Portfolio
Chief IP Counsel
accountable-owner
Approve, override and release held work on the ip portfolio lines$2,000kUS UK DE SG AU FRLegal leadership2026-12-05195Active
LG10-AUTH-H1
Outside Counsel Management
Director, Legal Operations
accountable-owner
Approve, override and release held work on the outside counsel management lines$25,000kUS UK DE SG AULegal leadership2027-04-10259Active
LG11-AUTH-H1
Legal Ops & Spend
Director, Legal Operations
accountable-owner
Approve, override and release held work on the legal ops & spend lines$25,000kUS UK DE SG AU FRLegal leadership2027-04-2992Active
LG1-AUTH-H1
Contract Lifecycle
Director, Commercial Contracts
accountable-owner
Approve, override and release held work on the contract lifecycle lines$2,000kUS UK DE SG AU FRLegal leadership2026-10-3194Active
LG3-AUTH-H1
Corporate & Governance
Company Secretary
accountable-owner
Approve, override and release held work on the corporate & governance lines$2,000kUS UK DE SG AU FR BRLegal leadership2027-06-02133Active
LG7-AUTH-H1
Litigation & Disputes
VP Litigation
accountable-owner
Approve, override and release held work on the litigation & disputes lines$250kUS UK DE SG AULegal leadership2027-01-31148Active
LG9-AUTH-H1
Privacy & Data Protection
Data Protection Officer
accountable-owner
Approve, override and release held work on the privacy & data protection lines$250kUS UK DE SG AU FRLegal leadership2027-05-0655Active

How the register is enforced

Not a wall chart

When a decision is recorded, the route resolves a grant first …

Refusals are evidence in their own right.

Expiry is a real state, not a label.

What is still missing

Say it before an examiner does

The holder identity on a grant is a name, not a cryptographic identity.

The persona a user is browsing under is chosen in the interface and is not yet an identity the server trusts.

Delegation is one hop deep.

Actions

What is waiting on a person

A grant is a written permission with an expiry, a cap and a named delegator.

Operations

What this desk is allowed to start

A surface that only reports is not operable.

Trigger and bound

This desk can grant, narrow, extend or revoke a permission, and every one of those is written to the spine with the person who did it.

Live observability

What the record shows right now

Grants split almost evenly between agents and people. 352,403 uses in the last thirty days produced 148 attempts above cap.

Current distribution

309 grants

Held by an agent15450%
Held by a person15550%

Is policy and strategy coming to fruition

Whether the written intent is holding here

148 cap breaches against 352,403 uses — 0% of exercised authority went past its bound.

Not holding on the record

The policy position is that no actor, agent or human, may commit the company past a stated value without a named delegator standing behind it.