Whistleblower Attorney Challenges Bank of England Report
On June 20, 2018, whistleblower attorney Stephen M. Kohn, Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center (NWC) and partner in the whistleblower law firm of Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto, LLP, released a letter to Bank of England (BoE) Governor Mark Carney requesting the bank remove a 2014 report on whistleblower laws. The NWC letter to Governor Carney included a rebuttal to the BoE’s report that called the document “rife with inaccuracies,” providing numerous reasons why information in the BoE report was erroneous.
The BoE’s report on whistleblowing was decidedly negative: in analyzing U.S. whistleblower protection and reward laws, the BoE was critical of the extent of protections for whistleblowers, the analysis of the quality of information whistleblowers have provided in the past, and the importance of whistleblower rewards, among other things.
In response to the BoE report’s criticisms, Kohn stated: “The Bank of England has done a great disservice to the citizens of the U.K. Their report on whistleblower incentive laws is deceptive and has been used to support whistleblower policies that fail to effectively protect whistleblowers.”
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