The government is pushing ahead with AI Growth Zones without national-level public consultation, while businesses dominate access to ministers and senior officials and communities and environmental groups are shut out....
New Spotlight on Corruption report ‘Zoned Out: how ordinary people, public-interest groups, and local communities are being excluded from policy making on AI Growth Zones’ finds businesses dominate access to ministers and senior officials as the government pushes ahead with AI Growth Zones without national-level public consultation.
The first Ethics and Integrity Commission’s (EIC) annual letter to the Prime Minister is out and it provides a really welcome annual health check up on the UK’s standards framework. The letter warns that ‘progress is at risk of stalling’ without personal leadership from the PM to accelerate standards reform.
London’s gold market and the credibility of its responsible sourcing claims will come under scrutiny in the UK High Court this week, when a landmark human rights case against the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) begins on 7 October.
The evidence we submitted warned that the UK’s constitutional democracy is at risk from the erosion of safeguards against executive overreach, corruption and abuse of power.
The High Court rules against the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) following a major challenge by Carter-Ruck and Mohamed Amersi to the regulator’s investigative powers.
The High Court rules against the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) following a major challenge by Carter-Ruck and Mohamed Amersi to the regulator’s investigative powers.
The government’s new AMLAR Strategy makes welcome commitments to tackling dirty money, but real impact will require sustained investment. A greater share of recovered assets should be reinvested through an Economic Crime Fighting Fund to build long-term enforcement capacity. Here we examine what’s driving increased asset recovery and what’s needed to scale up these efforts.
