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Weekly News Round-Up / 23 Jan

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Your weekly dose of what's up in whistleblowing.  Momentum is building behind allegations against the Police and its regulator. Trisha Napier has exposed how IOPC senior managers interfered in an investigation into police gross misconduct investigation into stop and search of black athlete Bianca Williams stop and search. (BBC, Protect) + Met Police commissioner Sir ... Read more

Weekly News Round-Up / 23 Jan

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Your weekly dose of what's up in whistleblowing.    Momentum is building behind allegations against the MET.   Trisha Napier has exposed how IOPC senior managers interfered in an investigation into police gross misconduct investigation into stop and search of black athlete Bianca Williams stop and search. (BBC, Protect)   + Met Police commissioner Sir ... Read more

Will the pandemic improve care home whistleblowing culture?

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Protect’s Head of Policy, Andrew Pepper-Parsons features in the latest issue of Care Markets magazine, discussing how Covid-19 has affected the sector. Protect, the UK whistleblowing charity, helps whistleblowers safely raise concerns about wrongdoing, abuse or poor practice. We run an advice line where whistleblowers can call us for free confidential advice about how to … Read more

Protect statement on Home Secretary whistleblowing tribunal

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Following the news that an employment tribunal has been lodged against Home Secretary Priti Patel under whistleblowing laws, Protect Chief Executive Liz Gardiner said the case showed how “whistleblowing laws can be used to hold even those in the highest office to account.” She said: “Far too often we see managers and senior personnel disregarding … Read more

Should UK regulators be paying more rewards to whistleblowers?

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They say everything’s bigger in America. This month, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)  announced it will increase the maximum amount it pays out to whistleblowers providing information on cartel activity from £100,000 to £250,000. It may sound a lot, but it’s dwarfed by the $279 million paid out to a single whistleblower by ... Read more

Speakers

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Who did we hear from? We heard from lawyers, academics, journalists, activists, whistleblowers, politicians and innovative practitioners. Confirmed speakers included: Zelda Perkins Founder of Can't Buy My Silence About Zelda Perkins Zelda Perkins has been campaigning since 2017 when she was the first woman to break an NDA, signed decades earlier, with Harvey Weinstein. She brought the systematic abuse of ... Read more

Protect supports FCDO whistleblower calls for new mechanisms to raise concerns outside the Civil Service

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Background Protect supports Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO) whistleblower Josie Stewart’s call for the introduction of an option for government whistleblowers to raise concerns with someone outside of the Civil Service. Stewart, with another FCDO whistleblower, exposed the chaos at the FCDO during the fall of Kabul that left tens of thousands of Afghans unable to access the UK. They ... Read more

WIN calls on Australia’s Attorney General to defend whistleblowers

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The Whistleblowing International Network (WIN), of which Protect is a member, and 17 whistleblowing protection, anti-corruption, and human rights organisations, have written to Australia’s Attorney General, Mark Dreyfus, to express deep concern about the ongoing criminal prosecution of Australian whistleblowers Mr Richard Boyle and Mr David McBride and to urge him to urgently take steps to restore ... Read more

Appeal Court case threatens workers ability to speak up against injustice – Kong v Gulf International Bank (UK) Ltd – Protect Press Release

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Court of Appeal to determine whether you can dismiss a whistleblower for the way they behave rather than the fact that they’ve blown the whistle [CA-2021-001961 Kong v Gulf International Bank (UK) Ltd] This week on Thursday 26 May 2022 the Court of Appeal will hear a test case on whistleblowing law, in which whistleblowing ... Read more

Defamation and whistleblowing

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DEFAMATION AND WHISTLEBLOWINGWhat does it mean? If you have raised whistleblowing concerns and your employer and/or individuals referred to in your whistleblowing report consider the report to be untrue, they may accuse you of having defamed them. Defamation is the publication of a false statement that has caused, or is likely to cause, serious harm ... Read more