uk whistleblowing law is extremely weak. i think many people don t realise that. you often read in the media that whistleblowers are protected by the law. they re not. there is no protection for whistleblowers under uk law. no one is legally required to protect whistleblowers. all that whistleblowers are entitled to under uk whistleblowing law is to make a retrospective claim forfinancial compensation, long, long after the fact and long, long after they ve been seriously injured as a result of reprisal. and for example, in the case of dr macanovic, an nhs whistleblower, a relatively recent case, an employment tribunal found her to be a genuine whistleblower who was entirely blameless, who was unfairly