Schedule 20 to PPERA lays down the penalties for offences relating to party donations: it’s a handy read-across guide.

In respect of each of the offences set out in my post yesterday, the maximum penalties are:

I blogged this a couple of times yesterday, but I thought it might be a good idea to summarise the position as regards what offences might potentially have been committed under the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 as […]

I’ve been having another think about donationsgate, specifically thinking about potential offences in relation to the Harriet Harman donation.

If Janet Kidd failed to tell Harriet Harman’s team the money was really from Abrahams, then she may have committed […]

David Boothroyd in his comment on my last post corrected me on a couple of factual points, as I pointed out in the update. As registered treasurer, Peter Watt (not Watts – apologies) can’t have committed offences under section […]

Iain Dale made an interesting post the other day on Abrahamsgate: he wondered whether David Abrahams’s donations, given by him via two of his employees and a solicitor (I’m afraid I have to say I wasn’t much […]

Le Monde says the former French President was questioned this morning by juge d’instruction Xavière Siméoni. The dossier she’s investigating relates to the misuse of funds from the office of the mayor of Paris – […]

A few days ago I missed the news that the police will be taking no action in respect of the Nan Goldin photo taken from the Baltic in Gateshead.

How amazing!

I did suggest this was […]

Jack Straw’s speech at Bournemouth the other week contained a surprise: the Labour government having rejected amendment to the law of self-defence a couple of years back, now the new Lord Chancellor says

the […]

I’m afraid the police are simply making fools of themselves by seizing a photograph by Nan Goldin from the Baltic Centre in Gateshead. This reminds me of a similar story from 2001, when a photgraph by Tierney Gearon was […]

I come back from my summer holiday to find there’s been a lot of sound and fury over the last couple of days about the decision of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal that Learco Chindamo, the murderer of Philip […]