Sentences with phrase «alleged whistleblowing»

Mr. Azar's pro bono work has also included successfully persuading the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to allow a disabled prisoner's federal civil rights case to proceed, resulting in a published decision on a matter of first impression; assisting tenants in disputes with their landlords; and assisting a translator in defending against contempt proceedings relating to her alleged whistleblowing about safety defects in automobiles.

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«The plan and the trap goes like this: On the 6th of May 2017 — Saturday night stroke Sunday morning — the EFCC, alongside local and international media, both print and TV and radio, will raid an apartment under the guise of whistleblowing policy of the Federal Government with a search warrant already obtained in the magistrate's court to search an apartment alleging to be one of your guest houses in Enugu State capital or any suitable available apartment in your senatorial district that will serve this evil purpose.

Cenkos Securities was lucky in this case, but it is a useful reminder to businesses that they should have effective whistleblowing and disciplinary policies, so that whenever disclosures and disciplinary allegations are investigated, they are done so independently so that decision makers are not influenced in any way, especially when it is alleged an individual has made a protected disclosure.

Her representations, prior to joining Skadden, include advising a large multinational company that provides services to the government in relation to alleged improper distribution of profits, advising on SFO and City of London Police investigations into the company, and advising its subsidiary on the UK Bribery Act; compliance advice for a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund in connection with anti-money laundering and anti-corruption policies; compliance advice for a Canadian - listed mining business operating in Europe relating to whistleblowing, data protection and anti-corruption procedures; and advising media organisations in connection with the «Diana» inquiry and the Leveson Inquiry into the Media, Culture and Ethics.

The EAT allowed their appeals, holding that the correct test for causation in whistleblowing cases was that applying in discrimination cases, namely whether (with the reversal of the burden of proof in the Employment Rights Act 1996, s 48 (2)-RRB- the employer could show that the alleged detriment was «in no sense whatsoever» on the grounds of the protected activity (applying Igen v Wong [2005] EWCA Civ 142, [2005] 3 All ER 812).

GlaxoSmithKline: $ 94 million; July 2012 The probe of what the American Lawyer calls the biggest health care fraud settlement in history began in 2003 with whistleblowing complaints filed by Cheryl Eckard, who alleged manufacturing faults at one of Glaxo's plants.

A whistleblowing former employee alleges Walmart issued misleading e-commerce data in its race to catch up with retail rival Amazon.com, and then fired him in retaliation when he refused to stop...