Whistleblower at Cleveland and Redcar Borough Council – A Cautionary Tale
The case of a council worker who was harassed and then sacked for blowing the whistle on the Council’s management provides some useful lessons for businesses that have to deal with allegations from...
View ArticleAirlines experience turbulence as OFT alleges illegal sharing of confidential...
The Office of Fair Trading has issued a statement of objections to Virgin Atlantic and Cathay Pacific over an alleged breach of the Chapter I Prohibition of the Competition Act 1998. Following a...
View ArticleBA executives cleared for their careers to take off following collapse of...
Four British Airways executives have been cleared of dishonestly agreeing to make or implement arrangements whereby different entities would engage in prohibited cartel activity. A person convicted of...
View Article17 bathroom fittings companies fined total of €622m for price fixing cartel
17 bathroom fittings companies, including some from outside the European Union, have been fined €622m by the European Commission for taking part in a cartel in which they agreed to fix the prices for...
View ArticlePrestressing Steel Producers fined €519m for price fixing and market-sharing...
17 producers of prestressing steel have been fined €519m by the European Commission for their involvement in a cartel in which they fixed prices and shared markets, contrary to Article 101 of the...
View ArticleDirectors watch out: OFT vows to get tough with directors who should have...
The Office of Fair Trading has vowed to get tough with directors who should have know that their companies were breaking competition laws. The OFT wants to use powers under the Company Directors...
View ArticleSurvival of the fittest as one participant in animal feed cartel gets total...
Five members of an animal feed cartel have received a hefty €175m fine from the European Commission for breaching Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (formerly Article 81...
View ArticleWhistleblowing – the key ingredients
The recent case of Easwaran v St George’s University of London is a useful reminder of the key constituent parts of a public interest disclosure claim (or “whistleblowing” as it is more commonly...
View ArticleTwitter agrees to UK council request to disclose details of Tweeter
Twitter has agreed to disclose the details to South Tyneside Council of a user who was critical of the council on its site. The Californian-based organisation received a request from a Californian...
View ArticleWikiLeaks discovers confidentiality is important and sues Guardian for...
WikiLeaks is suing The Guardian for an alleged breach of confidentiality. The website that came to the fore when it published secrets discovered from the US government, is now calling a practice that...
View ArticleSFO launches anonymous whistleblowing reporting system to gather information...
The Serious Fraud Office has launched SFO Confidential – a new facility whereby anyone can report suspicions of bribery or corruption in a confidential way. The SFO insists that the identities will...
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