All items: Whistleblowing

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  Parkins v Sodexho Ltd [2002] IRLR 109 EAT (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Blowing the whistle

    Date:

    1 April 2002

    The outcome of a recent employment tribunal could pave the way for claims of unfair dismissal under the whistleblowing legislation - without the one year service required. Malcolm Pike looks at practical ways employers can protect themselves.

  • Public interest disclosure: Breach of employment contract can be a protected disclosure

    Date:

    11 March 2002

    In Parkins v Sodexho Ltd, the EAT holds that a protected disclosure for the purposes of s.43B Employment Rights Act 1996 can relate to a breach of the employee's own contract of employment.

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  R v Secretary of the Central Office of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales) ex parte Public Concern at Work [2000] IRLR 658 HC (1 report relating to this case)

  • Employment tribunals: Extent of duty to place details of tribunal claims in public domain

    Date:

    15 August 2000

    In R v Secretary of the Central Office of the Employment Tribunals, ex parte Public Concern at Work, the High Court concludes that the particulars of an originating application (IT1) that the Secretary is generally required to enter in the public register must include: the applicant's and the respondent's names; the date the application was made and received; the relief sought; and a summary of each of the grounds of the claim sufficient to enable a member of the public exercising the right of inspection to identify the gist of those grounds.

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  Routledge and another v Howell's 2000 Ltd ET/1600374/2012 & ET/16033551/2012 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Whistleblowing: tribunal awards over £300,000 to teaching couple dismissed from private school

    Date:

    10 October 2013

    This employment tribunal awarded a combined total of just over £300,000 to the former headteacher of a private school and his partner, who was the head of physical education, after she was dismissed with no procedure.

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  Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust v Watkinson EAT/0378/10 (1 report relating to this case)

  • EAT upholds decision that former NHS trust chief executive was dismissed for making protected disclosure

    Date:

    23 August 2011

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal has upheld the employment tribunal decision that a former NHS trust chief executive was automatically unfairly dismissed for making a protected disclosure. 

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  Schofield v Cedars Care Group Ltd [2010] ET/1400001/10 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Whistleblowing: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    7 July 2011

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five employment tribunal cases that involve whistleblowing.

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  Shaw v Commissioner for Police for the Metropolis [2010] ET/2200375/09 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Whistleblowing: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    7 July 2011

    This article summarises the main issues and outcomes in five employment tribunal cases that involve whistleblowing.

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  Sturdy v Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS [2008] ET/1803960/07, ET/1807285/07 & ET/1801248/08 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Age discrimination in redundancy: employment tribunal decisions

    Date:

    8 September 2009

    This article provides a round-up of employment tribunal decisions on age discrimination in redundancy, a common complaint during the recession. Although the decisions are not binding on other tribunals, they provide useful illustrations for employers of redundancy situations that have led to age discrimination claims and, in some cases, large awards of compensation.

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  Tamana v Fyshe Horton Finney (in administration) ET/1800688/2013 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Whistleblowing: tribunal award of over £100,000 for CEO who resigned after being suspended for raising FSA concerns

    Date:

    10 October 2013

    The employment tribunal in this case awarded over £100,000 to a company CEO who raised concerns with the Financial Services Authority (FSA) over the company's relationship with a firm in the United Arab Emirates.

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  Thomas v Nationwide Building Society ET/1601342/14 (1 report relating to this case)

  • Early conciliation: employee's failure to comply did not prevent claim going ahead

    Date:

    18 November 2014

    In a case report from Blake Morgan, an employment tribunal found that an initial failure to follow the Acas early conciliation rules was not necessarily fatal to the claim being considered by the tribunal.

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  Underwood v Wincanton plc EAT/0163/15 (2 reports relating to this case)

  • Whistleblowing: Disclosure alleging breach of employees' contracts might be in public interest

    Date:

    2 March 2016

    In Underwood v Wincanton plc EAT/0163/15, the EAT held that an employment tribunal had erred in striking out a whistleblowing claim on the basis that the alleged disclosure could not in law satisfy the requirement of being in the "public interest".

  • Whistleblowing: public interest test may be satisfied where disclosure relates to a group of employees

    Date:

    22 October 2015

    The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) has held that the requirement for a whistleblower to have a reasonable belief that the disclosure was made in the public interest could be satisfied where the disclosure relates to a relatively small number of workers.