Protected Disclosure in UK Law
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Trappist orders: two tribunal decisions concerning the definition of a 'protected disclosure' have made life more difficult for those contemplating such an act in the public interest.
...The Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (Pida) amends the Employment Rights Act 1996 to safeguard a worker from dismissal if he makes a "protected disclosure". This must be made in good faith and concern information that in his reasonable belief show......
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Court of appeal ruling on discovery in civil litigation of regulatory information protected from disclosure by section 348 FSMA
Purpose: This paper aims to report and comment on the Court of Appeal ruling on Real Estate Opportunities Ltd v. Aberdeen Asset Managers Jersey Ltd and others. Design/methodology/approach: The pap...
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Whistle-blowing and the equality dimension of victimisation in the workplace
A considerable amount of attention has been given to the general law of victimisation under the Equality Act 20101 but scant consideration has been given to the equality aspect of victimisation rel.........Most workers in the public, private and voluntary sectors are protected from victimisation by making a protected disclosu re under the Public rest Disclosure Act 1998. However, only qualifying disclosures (defined below) are ......
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Semantic Disclosure Control: semantics meets data privacy
Purpose: To overcome the limitations of purely statistical approaches to data protection, the purpose of this paper is to propose Semantic Disclosure Control (SeDC): an inherently semantic privacy .........As a result, current solutions present limitations both in preventingdisclosure risks and in preserving the semantics (utility) of the protected data.Practical implications –SeDC captures more general, realistic and intuitive notions of privacy and informationdisclosure than purely ......
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School-based child sexual abuse prevention programmes: The evidence on effectiveness
Purpose: – This narrative review explored the efficacy of school-based child sexual abuse prevention programmes between 1990 and 2002. There were 22 efficacy studies that met clear inclusion criter......... discrimination, reported response to actual threat/abuse, disclosure, negative effects and maintenance of gains). The studies had many ... rates, there was no evidence to demonstrate that programmes protected children from intra-familial sexual abuse. For a small number of children ......
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Whistleblowing: Law and Practice, by JeremyLewis, JohnBowers QC, MartinFodder, and JackMitchell. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017, 832 pp., ISBN: 978‐0198788034, £175.00, hardback.
......Disclosure Act (PID A) of 1998. PIDA oers protection to wor kers by incorporating ... recent ref orms, the authors make it clear that being legally protected under PID A is not as straightforward as it might at first glance appear ......
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Gavin Hinks: whistleblowers in the US receive millions of dollars for exposing corporate wrongdoing. Are the UK's incentives lagging behind?
......The Public Interest Disclosure Act, which became law in 1999, provided protection for the employment ...In short, you can't be dismissed if you make a "protected disclosure"--those that reveal a criminal offence, a failure to comply ......
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Blowing through whistle-blowing.
...... misrepresentation, they must consider making a public interest disclosure, aka whistle-blowing. The purpose of this article is to show the legal ... a disclosure, made by a whistle-blower to their employer, is protected. The disclosure must be one that the whistle-blower "reasonably believes" ......
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Blowing the Whistle
...... whistleblowing employees is now based on the Public Interest Disclosure Act 1998 (amending the Employ- ment Rights Act 1996), which defines istleblowing’ as making a disclosure in the public interest. Protected disclosures may be made by a worker, acting in good faith, about conduct ......
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The Disclosure of Information
...... or kept by the agency from the Registrar General or an entry in the Adoption Contact Register is classified under ACA 2002, s 57 as ‘protected information’. . 20.5 The records must be kept for at least 100 years (DAIR 2005, regs 4 and 5). See also NMS 2014, Standard 27. . General Data ......
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