John Kidd

FCA Whistleblower case begins at the Employment Tribunal tomorrow. Case Number: 3200291/2023, Mr Latif vs FCA. Mr Latif is a former FCA data team manager who blew the whistle on multiple breaches of FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) and GDPR by the FCA and paid the price with his job. This Tribunal case will expose the scale of these breaches and also the entirely compromised internal FCA Whistleblower function. Information and information rights is what separates a democracy from a dictatorship or worse. In recent years the FCA has waged a war on those information rights with flagrant and now routine breaches of information law and our rights afforded by them. From personal experience and evidence I have proves FCA Counsel, FCA senior managers and the FCA Press office have all been involved. There is no information law they won't breach, no narrative or context they won't manipulate or falsify and regardless of truth, legal obligation or statutory duty. And clearly no employee they won't destroy in pursuit of that. This makes this whistleblower case one of the most important cases in financial services for more than a decade. Mr Latif stood up for every one of us. He had literally zero to gain by making his whistleblower disclosures. It wasn't his information rights being routinely breached by the FCA and its managers. It was yours and mine. The very definition of a Public Interest Disclosure. He spoke up. And he paid the price for doing so. I will be at the hearing in person, but I urge as many of you as possible to write to the East London Employment Tribunal ( [email protected] ) and request Remote Access for the above case number. @TransparencyTF @APPGbanking @appgonifandffs @WB_UK @BevanBrittanLLP @BevanBrittanEmp @APPGJustice @CommonsTreasury @jameshurley @andyverity @Benjaminwmartin #whistleblower #whistleblowing #FCA #GDPR #FOIA #Freedomofinformation #corruption #detriment