The UK’s lobbying body, the Office of the Registrar of Consultant Lobbyists (ORCL), has found that a Qatar-based lobbying firm did not need to declare its lobbying of a UK...
The rollback by the new Trump administration of anti-bribery and anti-kleptocracy enforcement alongside its suspension of USAID funding is a critical moment for the global fight against corruption. These actions...
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...
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)...
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...
On 9th December, the UK put three new individuals on the UK’s Anti-Corruption Sanctions list. Kamlesh Pattni, his wife Minal Damji and brother in law Mukesh Vaya were all sanctioned...
Today Spotlight on Corruption is releasing a scorecard on how the new government is implementing key recommendations on lobbying transparency. These recommendations were made by the UK’s top ethics body,...
Today we are releasing a lobbying scorecard on where the new government has got to on lobbying transparency. While the previous government committed to implement three major recommendations to enhance...
