Health and Safety Law 2024 (October 2024)
To qualify as a “protected disclosure”, the complaint must convey “information”, not just make “allegations”. The distinction is often unclear. However, someone who makes generalised allegations without providing reasonably specific information to back them up is unlikely to be protected (Kilraine v London Borough of Wandsworth [2018] EWCA Civ 1436).
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