Leading whistleblower attorneys Stephen M. Kohn and David Colapinto of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto recently attended the 1st Annual Whistleblowing Awareness Week in London. From Monday, March 20 through Friday, March 24, Kohn and Colapinto gave keynote addresses, spoke on panels, and discussed much needed reforms to the UK’s policies with other whistleblower advocates and members of Parliament. The All Party Parliamentary Group for Whistleblowing, a multi-party group established to advance legislation benefiting whistleblowers, co-hosted the event with WhistleblowersUK, a non-profit organization led by Georgina Halford-Hall.
Kohn, Kohn, & Colapinto LLP and Whistleblower Network News were sponsors of the event.
Following Whistleblowing Awareness Week, minister Kevin Hollinrake MP announced that a review of the whistleblowing framework in Parliament would in fact take place. While this is a step in the direction that Halford-Hall and others were hoping for, they are concerned that it is not enough.
“We will be asking the Minister to extend the scope of the research and commit to a firm timetable for the review of the Public interest Disclosure Act,” Halford-Hall said. “Having read the announcement, which is welcomed, properly I am concerned that it has avoided tackling the real problem at the centre of the cycle of failure that surrounds existing legislation by seeming to try to contain any amendments within existing law.”
Hollinrake, a conservative member of Parliament,...
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