AN INTERNATIONAL AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE ON PUBLIC INTEREST WHISTLEBLOWING

Professor David Lewis, Middlesex University

Action for Breach of Contract (1)

INITIAL SERVICES V PUTTERILL [1968] 1 QB 396 – Exception to the principle of non-disclosure of confidential information where there is ‘any misconduct of such a nature that it ought in the public interest to be disclosed to others’.

LION LABORATORIES LTD V EVANS [1985] QB 526 – The company sought an Injunction to prevent publication of the information on the grounds of breach of confidence. The action failed because….

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