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.
Spotlight welcomes measures to strengthen political donation rules and the Rycroft Review into foreign interference. But if this is the last elections bill of the Parliament, the government must go further to strengthen political finance rules, enforcement and safeguards against foreign interference.
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.
A new government strategy launched yesterday makes welcome commitments to ramp up action against money launderers and their professional enablers, from the high street to the square mile. But to achieve real impact, these ambitions need to be backed by a long-term government funding plan.
Some significant strides were taken by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) under the Starmer administration to tackle corruption and abuses of power. But further action is needed to stop powerful...
The SFO has struck a confidential settlement with ENRC, ending the Kazakh mining company’s long-running litigation. But with the terms undisclosed, the public is still in the dark about how much, if any, of the $290 million in damages sought by ENRC will be paid.
The government has proposed an amendment to the Representation of the People Bill, that would totally ban cryptocurrency political donations. But does the text of the amendment actually go far enough to truly stop cryptocurrency funding leaking into our political finance system?
