In a welcome move for the UK’s aid-funded enforcement efforts, in December last year the Foreign Secretary announced that the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) will extend its funding...
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...
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...
