Four out of five whistleblowers suffer some sort of reprisal, according to research into the experiences of 1,000 whistleblowers by the charity Public Concern at Work and the University of Greenwich. The report, Whistleblowing: the inside story, found that 81% say they would raise a concern about possible corruption or malpractice at work but, of those who had, more than half had their concerns rejected or ignored and only one third had a positive experience when reporting concerns.
13 August 2015
Reprisal for whistleblowers
MOVERS & SHAKERS
Anthony Collins—William Hallett & Lorna Scully
Anthony Collins hires two talented legal directors
Switalskis—five appointments
Firm expands national abuse compensation team
Mathys & Squire—nine promotions
IP firm announces new partners and senior promotions across UK offices
NEWS
A High Court ruling has sent a jolt through the legal profession after a newly qualified solicitor used an internal AI tool to produce court correspondence containing a fabricated legal citation
A significant data privacy ruling has clarified what counts as valid consent under UK data protection law
Executors may be overlooking billions of pounds in estate assets hidden in forgotten investments and misplaced share certificates
Britain’s booming non-surgical cosmetics market is operating in what some critics describe as a regulatory ‘Wild West’
Family contact disputes are becoming an increasingly prominent feature of Court of Protection litigation
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