One initiative being considered as part of the Home Office’s strategy to increase the recovery of the proceeds of crime would have considerable implications for the law relating to whistleblowing in the UK.
The Home Office has recently closed a period of consultation on the possibility of adopting a rewarded whistleblowing model based on the US’s False Claims Act (FCA). If implemented, the current legal framework concerning protection for whistleblowers, which is founded on statutory employment rights, may well need to be significantly modified.
