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

Introducing Spotlight’s new Anti-Corruption Enforcement Tracker

• James Bolton-Jones

Our recently launched anti-corruption enforcement tracker brings together public but hard-to-find data to shed light on the UK’s enforcement record against corruption and related economic crimes, which by one academic…

Business groups providing hospitality get most government meetings, new analysis reveals

Business groups which provide the most corporate hospitality to government departments also get the most meetings with ministers and senior officials in those departments, according to a new report from…

Levelling the playing field: How economic policy gets captured and what to do about it

Fair and transparent decision-making in government is critical for addressing historically low levels of public trust in the UK. Recent surveys have shown that 66% of people feel they have…

Gatekeepers, enablers or technicians? The contested role of lawyers as facilitators of kleptocracy and grand corruption

• Dr Helen Taylor

This policy report presents the findings of interdisciplinary academic research that explores the contested role of lawyers in relation to kleptocracy, state capture and grand corruption. Focusing on the role…

Broken Record: Latest round of legal sector AML reports show it is time for reform

• Dr Helen Taylor

Lawyers need to be at the forefront of preventing dirty money entering the UK. But time and again lawyers have been found to be some of the most prominent professionals…

Press release: Spotlight calls time on legal sector AML supervisors

In its latest detailed analysis of the performance of the professional bodies that police lawyers for money laundering, Spotlight on Corruption finds that a step change in effectiveness is needed…