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Documents released to Good Law Project show how Norman Lamont and Nigel Lawson pushed Inland Revenue officials to give private equity fund managers special treatment.

Labour has promised to appoint a Covid Corruption Commissioner if it wins power. Good Law Project is continuing our work exposing waste and sleaze by commissioning legal advice on how Government could claw back wasted money.

The Government is withholding vital information from the public about its net zero plans. We’re now going to the High Court in February with Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth to demand transparency.

UK tax authorities admit to undercharging managers of buyout funds since 1987.

As bidders circle the ‘in-house journal’ of the Conservative Party, research commissioned by Good Law Project suggests Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer will have ‘considerable discretion’ over whether to intervene.  

Legal challenge brings missing storm overflows into Government’s plan to tackle sewage dumping.

With Trudi Warner facing up to two years in jail for holding a sign, over 200 people have turned up at courts around England with the same banner.

Despite his rowing back on climate pledges, Rishi Sunak claims that his Government can somehow still hit its legally binding net zero target, so we have asked it to show its working.

Good Law Project and the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland (ERCS) have forced the Scottish Government to accept it has breached climate commitments and to start “urgent work” on a “remedy”.

Rishi Sunak’s shameful rowing back on key climate pledges shows why the legal challenge we are bringing with Friends of the Earth and ClientEarth is more important than ever. We are holding the Government to account to ensure their plans to reduce emissions are effective and transparent.

Frank Hester, who gave the Conservatives £5m, continues to rake in £800,000 a week.

Attorney General’s Office claims that a case against Trudi Warner, who could face up to two years in prison for reminding jurors of their rights, is ‘in the public interest’.

Research from Good Law Project shows that Keir Starmer would have plenty of room to renegotiate Boris Johnson’s disastrous EU deal in 2025.

We are disappointed that the High Court has today ruled in the Government’s favour on the rump of our challenge to its Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, which allows water companies to continue to dump sewage until 2050 and beyond.

The Electoral Commission says that voter ID rules will impact people with lower incomes, with disabilities and from minority ethnic backgrounds. But the Government says its reforms are ‘very encouraging’.

Good Law Project has been challenging the Government over the industrial scale of sewage dumping by water companies. Now the Office for Environmental Protection says there may have been ‘misinterpretations’ of the law.