We are submitting evidence to this inquiry because we believe that continuing to allow cryptocurrency donations to political parties and candidates without proper safeguards poses significant risks by increasing opportunities for malign and hostile actors to interfere in our democracy and dirty money to flow into our political system.
Written evidence submitted to the Foreign Affairs Committee sanctions inquiry by Spotlight on Corruption and the International Lawyers Project.
Spotlight on Corruption’s submission to Legal Services Board’s consultation on the new regulatory objective on economic crime, 7 February 2025.
This submission sets out why the second phase of the Comprehensive Spending Review 2025 is a major opportunity to enhance the UK’s ability to fight economic crime and promote economic growth for law abiding business.
This submission answers a number of specific questions presented in HM Treasury’s consultation on the Money Laundering Regulations which ran from 11 March 2024 to 9 June 2024.
Over the past year we have monitored the enforcement of sanctions breaches and challenges to sanctions designations in the UK courts, based on our court monitoring programme and enforcement
expertise.
As regular observers of court proceedings, our experience is that the public access rights which flow from the principle of open justice are not always a practical reality. The most frequent and frustrating challenge we encounter in this regard relates to our requests for non-party access to court documents.
We submitted evidence to the Arbitration Bill [HL] Special Bill Committee on 6 February 2024. This further evidence is submitted on invitation from the Chair to address three additional questions as answered below.
