A recent Court of Appeal decision has highlighted the need for caution when dismissing an employee for making a disclosure. If objectively the tribunal determines that it was a protected disclosure, the dismissal will be automatically unfair even where the employer believed the disclosure was not protected, perhaps because in its view the disclosure was not made in the public interest. (Beatt v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust)
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