LONDON, UK: The board and shareholders of nChain UK welcomed on 30 June 2026, the rejection by the London Central Employment Tribunal of a whistleblowing case made by two former senior executives.
The tribunal rejected outright the two claimants’ primary allegations that they had been unfairly dismissed for whistleblowing, saying that neither of them made any protected disclosures.
On the key matter of alleged whistleblowing the three-strong panel of the tribunal found in favour of nChain, a blockchain patent company, ruling that the conspiracy theories put forward by David Brookes and Andrew Moody were “absurd”, “entirely without substance”, and “appear to be very much reverse engineered”. In short, “they were not whistleblowers”.
The company showed the tribunal the real reason the men were dismissed was their involvement in an office fracas. This prompted an internal disciplinary process which ended with the men being dismissed for gross misconduct.
“This ruling is not just a major victory for nChain, it is a victory for common sense and justice, with the complete rejection of any claim about whistleblowing,” said nChain Board director Elena Spiers-King. “In a nascent industry like the tech sector, where so much is pioneering, new and uncharted, it is sometimes too easy for dishonest actors to shape their own narratives, to confect conspiracy theories and seek to take advantage by intimidation.
“The two claimants were dismissed for gross misconduct, as the tribunal has...
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