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17/10/2025

Rice v Wicked Vision (CA): Old Square in important whistleblowing case

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Nadia Motraghi KC, Rad Kohanzad and Daisy van den Berg represented Wicked Vision in the Court of Appeal this week in this appeal concerning (i) the ratio of the Court of Appeal’s earlier decision in Timis v Osipov [2019] ICR 655 and (ii) the correct statutory construction and approach to claims for dismissal as a detriment when brought by an employee against an employer under s.47B Employment Rights Act 1996.

This was a joined appeal with Barton Turns v Treadwell on the same issue, and Protect, the whistleblower charity, appeared as an intervener.

Judgment has been reserved.

The appeal was livestreamed from Court 63 and the Wicked Vision oral submissions are available here and here.

Nadia, Rad and Daisy were instructed by Amit Patel (Atkinson Rose).

This article was written by Rachel Wall.