If so, the Handbook of Political
Party Funding will provide a valuable resource for discussions of how the current situation may be changed — not least of all the
difficulties that any attempted resolution is likely to encounter.
Aside from the evidential
difficulties in determining such issues (into which only really the
parties can have significant insight) the reality is that the courts simply do not have time, or most
parties the wherewithal to
fund the associated costs, to consider issues of conduct at length.