Hibbins v Hesters Way Neighbourhood Project [2009] IRLR 198 EAT

Public interest disclosures: Whistleblowing provisions protect disclosure of third-party wrongdoing

Date:

23 January 2009

In Hibbins v Hesters Way Neighbourhood Project EAT/0275/08, the EAT held that a teacher's disclosure that a prospective student was a suspect in a criminal case was capable of being a protected disclosure for the purposes of the whistleblowing legislation.