Spotlight on Corruption shines a light on the UK’s role in corruption at home and abroad.

Foreign donors: Parliamentary pressure grows for ambitious reforms to the UK’s political finance regime

Galvanised by the prospect of foreign donors – including a certain US-based tech billionaire – potentially contributing to UK political parties, over the last two weeks more than a dozen…

New Bill aims to restore public trust in our politics and fix the UK’s broken system of ethics regulation

• George Havenhand

Yesterday the House of Lords saw the first reading of a crucial Private Members’ Bill* which would significantly improve ethics regulation in government. The Public Service (Ethics, Integrity and Independence)…

Solicitors’ tribunal finds against lawyer for stifling public scrutiny – an early test case for SLAPPs

• Megan Davis

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal has today found against a lawyer for improperly stifling public scrutiny, following a complaint that he engaged in legal tactics broadly referred to as Strategic Lawsuits…

New Spotlight report analyses crippling delays in economic crime cases

Today Spotlight on Corruption releases ‘Back of the courtroom queue’, a report by former Chief Crown Prosecutor Andrew Penhale on the immensely damaging impact that the crisis in the UK…

Back of the courtroom queue: How to tackle serious delays in economic crime cases in the courts of England and Wales

Backlogs in the courts now exceed 70,000, while more than a quarter (27%) of all trials are adjourned, and only 43% go ahead on time. The lack of judicial sitting…

Open justice: Spotlight wins right to publish documents from major UK corruption trial

• George Havenhand

Today, in an important ruling with wider implications for open justice, Spotlight on Corruption won the right to publish the transcripts and Court documents from a criminal trial that highlighted…