Reports & Briefings

Briefing: The work of the Serious Fraud Office

The SFO has come under intense scrutiny after a series of high-profile setbacks, with recent reviews by Brian Altman KC and Sir David Calvert-Smith KC providing forensic insight into the...

A Privileged Profession? How the UK’s legal sector escapes effective supervision for money laundering

From setting up complex company structures for clients to helping purchase luxury real estate and negotiate mortgages, lawyers play a critical role in facilitating and legitimising money flows. Their role...

What could a UK Integrity and Ethics Commission look like?

The last few years have seen intense and growing public debate about how the standards of behaviour by politicians and senior government officials should be regulated in the UK. At...

Overall findings from JL Partners public polling on standards in public life

The Home Office has scrapped golden visas. This is what should happen next.

On 17 February 2022, the Home Office scrapped the UK’s Tier 1 Investor visa route (‘golden visas’) without formal notice and with immediate effect. This decision is welcome – last...

Closing the UK’s economic crime enforcement gap: Proposals for boosting resources for UK law enforcement to fight economic crime.

• Dr Daniel Beizsley

• Dr Susan Hawley

Economic crime – which includes corruption, bribery, money laundering and fraud – poses a major risk to the UK’s national security, corrupts financial institutions and markets, reduces economic performance and...

New Briefing: Red Carpet for Dirty Money – The UK’s Golden Visa Regime

Briefing: Is the government getting serious about conflicts of interest?

• Dr Daniel Beizsley

• George Havenhand

In light of the depth of concern at the government’s handling of conflict of interest issues, the new procurement policy note represents a useful clarification of the existing rules and policy frameworks. Disappointingly, it only introduces minor changes that fall far short of what is needed to fix what is clearly a broken system.