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Pillsbury - Global Trade & Sanctions Law

UK Expands Whistleblower Protections to Bolster Sanctions Enforcement

On June 26, 2025, the UK government brought into force the Public Interest Disclosure (Prescribed Persons) (Amendment) Order 2025 (the “2025 Amendment”), marking a notable development in the UK government’s sanctions...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

New Whistleblower Reward Schemes Would Dramatically Increase Enforcement Risk for UK Corporates and Regulated Firms

Quick read - It is all but inevitable that UK enforcement agencies will start paying for information about organisational misconduct.  In the US, whistleblower reward schemes have generated tens of billions of dollars in...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Litigation 2024 Year in Review and 2025 Outlook: A view of the landscape in Europe and the UK

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Welcome to our Litigation 2024 Year in Review and 2025 Outlook. In this report, we examine the legal trends that have shaped the commercial landscape in Europe and the UK and explore how these developments are likely to...more

A&O Shearman

Whistleblowing: ensure programs are fit for 2025

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Whistleblowing has become an increasingly critical aspect of corporate governance and compliance, especially for multinational companies operating across diverse legal and regulatory landscapes. We see increased efforts by...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Navigating Cross Border Whistleblower Investigations: A EU/UK Perspective

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"The truth is rarely pure and never simple," said Oscar Wilde, and nowhere is this more evident than in the complex and ever-evolving world of whistleblowing investigations. In the wake of high-profile scandals and the #MeToo...more

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The FCA's non-financial misconduct survey: decoding the findings

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In February 2024, the FCA sent a survey to 1,028 wholesale firms (insurers, market intermediaries, banks and brokers) asking about recorded incidents of non-financial misconduct between 2021 and 2023. With a 96% response...more

DLA Piper

Be Global: Employment Law in 5 - October 2024

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5 developments to read for October in less than 5 minutes - Prepare: Extensive overhaul of UK workers' rights - The UK government published its Employment Rights Bill 2024. The Bill contains 28 new measures, many of which...more

WilmerHale

Nick Ephgrave’s First Year as SFO Director

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Nick Ephgrave QPM, the Director of the Serious Fraud Office (“SFO”), recently marked the end of his first year in office. Ephgrave has brought a renewed energy, sense of purpose and proactive approach to the SFO, opening six...more

Littler

UK Whistleblowing Update: Three Key Cases

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2024 has been a fruitful year in the UK for whistleblowing law so far, with three key cases employers should be aware of: Can an external job applicant qualify as a whistleblower?...more

BCLP

Incentivising Whistleblowers: What Does the Future Hold in the UK and the US for Whistleblower Protection and Incentivisation?

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In the UK, it has not historically been part of the fabric of our legal and regulatory system to pay whistleblowers who provide evidence to authorities who are investigating potential breaches of law or regulation....more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 18th Annual Conference on Anti-Corruption - June 18th - 19th, London, United Kingdom

Hosted by the C5 Group, the 18th Annual Conference on Anti-Corruption London will bring together the brightest minds in anti-corruption and compliance to review the most pressing multi-jurisdictional enforcement updates...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - March 2024

In this issue of Employment Flash: the new DOL rule on independent contractors, SCOTUS’s unanimous Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower ruling, plus labor law developments in California, Delaware, D.C., New York, the EU, Germany and...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

U.K. Parliament Giving Whistleblower Protections a Fresh Review

Recent legislative developments in the United Kingdom, public remarks from the new director of the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO), and recent parliamentary hearings on the Post Office Horizon scandal put a spotlight on...more

Jones Day

Jones Day Cross-Border Investigations Series 2023 - Issue 1 : Whistleblowing

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While there are a number of ways in which organizations may become aware of potential wrongdoing internally, perhaps the most significant for its legal and compliance teams is internal reporting, or “whistleblowing,” by...more

Hogan Lovells

Review into the UK whistleblowing framework – legislative reform to corporate criminal liability?

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In a policy paper published on Monday 27 March, the Department for Business and Trade has announced a review into the current UK whistleblowing framework (“the Review”). The Review will assess how the whistleblowing framework...more

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All change? UK government reviews whistleblowing laws

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In March 2021, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced that it would review the UK’s whistleblowing framework but did not give a timescale for the exercise. BEIS’ successor, the Department...more

NAVEX

Ethics, Risk and Compliance Roles in the U.K. – Part 1

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We were delighted to interview Kevin Parle – Fellow of the International Compliance Association (ICA) and Deputy Chair of the Data Protection Forum – for insights and observations of whistleblowing roles within U.K....more

NAVEX

NAVEX Next Virtual Conference – Whistleblowing Round Up

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On 9 June 2022, NAVEX hosted the 2022 European Risk and Compliance Virtual Conference, in which industry leaders and experts came together to discuss all the latest news, trends, updates and challenges surrounding company...more

Hogan Lovells

World Whistleblowers Day – Is Your Organisation Prepared For A Whistle-Blower?

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Observed every 23 June, World Whistleblowers Day was created by a group of non-governmental organisations to raise public awareness of the rights and protections of whistleblowers, and to tackle global corruption....more

K2 Integrity

Fixing Integrity in Top-Level Sports: Applying Lessons from the Financial Services Sector

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Over the past decade sport globally has had a number of high-profile public scandals, namely in doping and abuse. In the UK, British Gymnastics has been placed under the microscope for reports of abuse; a doping scandal has...more

BCLP

Whistleblowing: Regulatory health check for financial institutions’ whistleblower frameworks

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On 11 May 2020, Practical Law published a new practice note, written by Polly James, a partner in our Investigations, Financial Regulation and White Collar practice group, on whistleblower frameworks for financial...more

Hogan Lovells

New EU Whistleblowing Directive – what UK financial services firms need to know

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On 7 October 2019, the Council of the European Union formally adopted a new Directive on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law. The Directive was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on...more

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Employment News: whistleblowing; unions; holidays

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It's not what you know – dismissal for whistleblowing despite dismissing manager's belief - In Royal Mail Group Ltd v Jhuti the Supreme Court has reinstated a decision that an employee was dismissed because she had blown...more

White & Case LLP

Blowing the whistle on inadequate protections: How does the new EU Whistleblower Directive improve on existing legislation?

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'Whistleblower' is a widely used term. However, what it means and the protections a whistleblower might receive are by no means universal. Whistleblowers have been a regular presence in the news over recent years, from...more

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Compliance Perspectives: The EU Whistleblower Directive

Earlier in 2019, the European Parliament adopted a new EU Whistleblower Directive. To better understand these new rules and their implications we sat down for a discussion with Vigjilenca Abazi, Assistant Professor at...more

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