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4. ➡️ remove the VAT exemption which allows for foreign influence to fly under the radar ➡️ create a single, searchable database of lobbying activity

3. 🗄️ The recommendations would: ➡️ expand the statutory lobbying register to cover all lobbyists, including in-house lobbying teams that are currently exempt ➡️ extend it to include lobbying of special advisers

2. ✉️ So we have joined the @cipr.co.uk , @unlockdemocracy.bsky.social, @transparencyuk.bsky.social & Action on Smoking and Health (UK) in writing to Andy Burnham, calling on him to implement the @ethicsandintegrity.bsky.social's recommendations on lobbying reform in full.

Coalition of campaign groups and industry bodies urge new Prime Minister to overhaul Westminster lobbying lawsA coalition of civil society organisations and industry bodies has written to new Prime Minister Andy Burnham, calling on him to commit to implement the recommendations of the Ethics and Integrity Com...newsroom.cipr.co.uk

➡️ Strengthen the UK's international role by confirming the Illicit Finance Summit will proceed in December

➡️ Demonstrate strong leadership on corruption by reconfirming the Anti-Corruption Champion and setting an ambitious timeline for implementing the Anti-Corruption Strategy

We're calling on the new PM to: ➡️ Clean up politics by laying out a bold agenda on restoring public trust, including lobbying transparency reform, banning second jobs for MPs, and introducing a donations cap

3. 🪖 So it’s essential that the PFSA continues to have a broad remit to protect the whole of public sector spending from the all too real risk of fraud, particularly as the government looks to ramp up spending on defence and infrastructure. Read more in our blog:

Beyond Covid fraud - the Government must go further to protect public money - Spotlight on CorruptionThe Government’s response to the Covid Counter-Fraud Commissioner is out. Largely, the Government has accepted the Commissioner’s recommendations for tackling fraud. Disappointingly though, the Govern...www.spotlightcorruption.org

2. 💸 This re-organisation suggests a drive to tackle benefit fraud – which cost the public purse £6.5 billion in the 2025 financial year – but this should not lose sight of the £81 billion estimated to be lost across government each year through wider fraud and error.

Fraud and error in the benefit system, Financial Year Ending (FYE) 2025www.gov.uk

8.⏩ We’re down at the High Court following the trial as part of our court monitoring programme. Stay with us for more insights from the courtroom as this legal battle plays out.

7.👀 This power is fundamental to the regulator’s role: from enforcing #anti-money laundering rules to examining the intention behind legal threats in ‘SLAPPs’ investigations. Without it, the SRA would be a paper tiger, and urgent parliamentary intervention would be needed to plug the gap.

6.😬 The SRA is on the hook for nearly a whopping £1 million in costs following this failure. The regulator also reportedly faces paying an additional sum of over £85k in appeal costs after a disappointing decision to drop their appeal against the Tribunal’s decision.

5.💷 Carter-Ruck have gone on the offensive at a time when the SRA is facing serious scrutiny for its high-profile failures on #SLAPPs. In one of these cases, the regulator’s case against a Carter-Ruck partner who threatened legal action on behalf of the #OneCoin crypto scam was tossed out.

Legal regulator to foot hefty bill for pursuing Carter-Ruck partner in OneCoin crypto scam SLAPP case - Spotlight on CorruptionToday the Solicitors Regulation Authority has been told it is on the hook for more than half a million pounds in legal costs to Claire Gill, after thewww.spotlightcorruption.org

4.❓ This interpretation sits at odds with the SRA’s practice of routinely examining privileged material as part of its investigations. In many cases we’ve followed, the regulator has relied on privileged material to argue that lawyers breached anti-money laundering rules or professional ethics.

A Privileged Profession? How the UK's legal sector escapes effective supervision for money laundering - Spotlight on CorruptionFrom setting up complex company structures for clients to helping purchase luxury real estate and negotiate mortgages, lawyers play a critical role inwww.spotlightcorruption.org

3.⚖️ But the specialist libel firm & their former client are refusing to hand over key material requested by the regulator. They argue that the wording of the relevant legislation does not expressly give the SRA power to compel disclosure of legally privileged information.

Agreed Case Summary re Carter Ruck Solicitors/Amersi vs SRA High Court caseNews: This is an agreed (by all parties involved) case summary in relation to the Carter Ruck Solicitors/Amersi vs SRA High Court case, due to be heard from 20 July 2026.www.sra.org.uk

2.🔦 Carter-Ruck are being investigated by the SRA after their client Amersi brought successive lawsuits against former MP Charlotte Leslie over due diligence memos she prepared about the Tory party donor - a claim struck out by the judge with strong criticism of the conduct of the litigation.

‘SLAPP victim’ reports top libel firm to SRAFormer Conservative MP will make complaint over firm's alleged 'series of abusive legal cases'.www.lawgazette.co.uk

6. 😬 The SRA is on the hook for nearly a whopping £1 million in costs following this failure. The regulator also reportedly faces paying an additional sum of over £85k in appeal costs after a disappointing decision to drop their appeal against the Tribunal’s decision.

5. 💷 Carter-Ruck have gone on the offensive at a time when the SRA is facing serious scrutiny for its high-profile failures on #SLAPPs. In one of these cases, the regulator’s case against a Carter-Ruck partner who threatened legal action on behalf of the #OneCoin crypto scam was tossed out.

Legal regulator to foot hefty bill for pursuing Carter-Ruck partner in OneCoin crypto scam SLAPP case - Spotlight on CorruptionToday the Solicitors Regulation Authority has been told it is on the hook for more than half a million pounds in legal costs to Claire Gill, after thewww.spotlightcorruption.org

4.❓ This interpretation sits at odds with the SRA’s practice of routinely examining privileged material as part of its investigations. In many cases we’ve followed, the regulator has relied on privileged material to argue that lawyers breached anti-money laundering rules or professional ethics.

A Privileged Profession? How the UK's legal sector escapes effective supervision for money laundering - Spotlight on CorruptionFrom setting up complex company structures for clients to helping purchase luxury real estate and negotiate mortgages, lawyers play a critical role inwww.spotlightcorruption.org

3. ⚖️ But the specialist libel firm & their former client are refusing to hand over key material requested by the regulator. They argue that the wording of the relevant legislation does not expressly give the SRA power to compel disclosure of legally privileged information.

Agreed Case Summary re Carter Ruck Solicitors/Amersi vs SRA High Court caseNews: This is an agreed (by all parties involved) case summary in relation to the Carter Ruck Solicitors/Amersi vs SRA High Court case, due to be heard from 20 July 2026.www.sra.org.uk