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...
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...
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...
In a ground-breaking judgment handed down this morning, the Crown Court has given Spotlight on Corruption the go-ahead to publish the transcripts and 800 documents from the trial of two...
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...
On 15 November 2024, Spotlight organised a multi-stakeholder roundtable on the UK’s framework for compensating the overseas victims of corruption. The Chatham House-style discussion brought together civil servants, law enforcement...
Today’s announcement that the Home Office and City of London Police have established a new pilot Domestic Corruption Unit is an incredibly important and welcome tipping point. According to the...
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,...
