Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly
BOOK REVIEW - THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF DISCLOSURE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST
THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF DISCLOSURE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: An Analysis of Prohibitions and Protections with Particular Reference to Employers and Employees by Yvonne Cripps, LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D., Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. ESC Publishing Ltd., Oxford (1987, xx and 287 pp., plus 8 pp. Bibliography and 3 pp. Index). Hardback £32.50.
This is a rare and, in many ways, excellent book. No one, knowing the writings of Dr Cripps, will be surprised to find that it is really the examination of a social problem, which can best be summed up from a quotation taken from the third section, on reform (p. 258): The problem with such “whistleblowing” … is that, although it serves the public interest in the receipt
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