{"id":3678,"date":"2026-05-22T20:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T19:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=3678"},"modified":"2026-05-23T07:06:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T06:06:16","slug":"1-28-june-employment-tribunal-bury-st-edmunds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/?p=3678","title":{"rendered":"Whistleblowing at Cambridge University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-20.11.51-1024x567.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3689\" style=\"width:787px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-20.11.51-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-20.11.51-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-20.11.51-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/21percent.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-22-at-20.11.51.png 1398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>An Employment Tribunal from 1-28 June at Bury St Edmunds is now listed on the public website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtserve.net\" title=\"courtserve\">courtserve<\/a>. The case number is 3307960\/2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This case is listed as PIDA. In other words, the Claimant &#8212; Prof Neil Wyn Evans &#8212; is alleging that he suffered detriments by acting as a whistleblower. Whistleblowers are protected from retaliation under the Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cambridge University&#8217;s whistleblowing policy is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hr.admin.cam.ac.uk\/policies-procedures-z\/whistleblowing-policy-summary\" title=\"here \">here<\/a>. Specifically, a staff member can make a whistleblowing disclosure if he or she has a reasonable belief that one or more of the following has occurred, or is likely to occur :<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>a criminal offence<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>failure to comply with legal regulations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>financial or non-financial maladministration or malpractice or impropriety of fraud<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>academic or professional malpractice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a risk to the health and safety of an individual<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>environmental damage<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>a miscarriage of justice<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>sexual harassment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>At the University of Cambridge, responsibility for administering the whistleblowing policy rests with the Academic Secretary, the Registrary or the Vice-Chancellor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We have voluntarily redacted the names of the Second, Third and Fourth Respondents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As with all Employment Tribunals, members of the public may attend either in person or remotely. Standard instructions are available on the CourtServe website, repeated below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Requests from the media and members of the public to observe a hearing remotely should be made in advance to watfordet@justice.gov.uk to allow for inclusion during the hearing set-up. The naming convention in the subject heading of the email request should read &#8220;MEDIA OR PUBLIC ACCESS REQUEST &#8211; AN Other v AN Other &#8211; Hearing Date.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commentary on the underlying events should be avoided until they have been presented in open court. They may then be reported under the principles of open justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Employment Tribunal from 1-28 June at Bury St Edmunds is now listed on the public website courtserve. The case number is 3307960\/2023. This case is listed as PIDA. In other words, the Claimant &#8212; Prof Neil Wyn Evans &#8212; is alleging that he suffered detriments by acting as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3678"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3695,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3678\/revisions\/3695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/21percent.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}