Please join us for an in-person panel session in Parliament on how the UK’s legal sector escapes effective supervision.

Chaired by Dame Margaret Hodge MP, key speakers include:

• Dr Sue Hawley – Executive Director, Spotlight on Corruption

• Susan Coughtrie - Deputy Director, Foreign Policy Centre

• Franz Wild - Editor, Bureau of Investigative Journalism

More speakers to be announced.

Organised in partnership with Spotlight on Corruption and in response to their report on the subject, this session will provide an opportunity to discuss how we can fix the supervision of the UK’s legal sector. The legal sector supervisors tasked with holding legal firms to account for breaches of the UK’s AML rules are fragmented, with enforcement action uneven and inadequate. Meanwhile, ‘lawfare’ is conducted between oligarchs in UK courts and journalists find themselves threatened by Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs). Panellists will discuss how we might begin to remove these stains on the reputation of our once world-leading legal sector.

To RSVP and for access details, please contact APPG Communications Manager Laurie Woodiwiss, by email at laurie.woodiwiss@parliament.uk, or use the button below.