Whistleblowing concerns at the heart of the Post Office scandal: what hope of legal reform?

In the latest phase of the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry, the limitations of the whistleblowing policies and practices of the Post Office Limited (POL) and Fujitsu have been exposed, together with the need for legal reform in the absence of the UK adopting the EU Whistleblowing Directive. The effective questioning at the inquiry of senior executive witnesses from both companies by counsel representing core participant sub-postmasters (SPMs) has revealed the limited viability and even absence of corporate whistleblowing policies.