Whistleblowing/Public interest disclosures

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• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Tori O'Neil, associate, and Judith Harris, legal director, at Addleshaw Goddard detail the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Ceri Hughes, David Parry, and Carly Mather, associates at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Training

  Whistleblowing quiz - line manager training

  A quiz for line managers to test their knowledge on the law and practice relating to whistleblowing.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Annabel Mackay, managing associate at Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Unfairly dismissed whistleblower wins £1.2 million compensation

  Compensation for a successful whistleblowing claim is unlimited, as the employer in this case found to its cost.

• Date:

  28 June 2010

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Whistleblowing: Opinion on discretionary redundancy scheme not protected disclosure

  In Goode v Marks & Spencer plc EAT/0442/09, the EAT held that an employment tribunal was right to find that an employee had not been dismissed because of having made a protected disclosure. There had been no qualifying or protected disclosure, but merely an opinion expressed about the employer's proposal for changes to a discretionary enhanced redundancy scheme.

• Date:

  14 June 2010

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Whistleblowing: Whistleblower protected where disclosure made in previous employment

  In BP plc v Elstone and another EAT/0141/09, the EAT held that a worker was entitled to bring a complaint under the whistleblowing provisions of the Employment Rights Act 1996 in respect of a detriment that he allegedly suffered in his current employment because of a protected disclosure that he had made while in previous employment.

• Type:

  Employment law cases

  Case round-up

  Richard Ryan, associate, Helen Ward, associate, and Tori O'Neil, trainee solicitor, Addleshaw Goddard, detail the latest rulings.

• Date:

  26 January 2010

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Whistleblowing: Disclosure of "information" requires statement of facts

  In Cavendish Munro Professional Risks Management Ltd v Geduld [2010] IRLR 38 EAT, the EAT held that the employment tribunal erred in deciding that a solicitor's letter amounted to a qualifying disclosure for the purposes of s.43B of the Employment Rights Act 1996. The letter merely stated the employee's position in an ongoing dispute, without alleging any facts.

• Date:

  23 January 2009

  Type:

  Employment law cases

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

  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.