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• Employment Law & Psychiatric injury [guidance]
• Ten principles - the accountable employer [guidance]
• Gagging clauses [guidance]
• Some information on bullying at work [guidance]
• Has your employer got this Anti-Bullying Policy? [guidance]
• Public Interest Disclosure Act (UK) - LINK to Act
• Could you be a victim of negligence? [guidance]
• How the messenger gets shot - what to expect at worst [guidance]
• How to petition parliament [guidance]
• Book: The Whistleblower's Handbook [guidance]
• Campaign for a Dignity at Work Bill
• Whistleblowing and illness (2005)
• Volunteers are not protected from dismissal?
• Resisting Unfair Dismissal [guidance]

• Four principles (OPAL) of ethical management [guidance]
• Ten principles - the accountable employer [guidance]
• Gagging clauses [guidance]
• Whistleblowing - a Thought for Managers [guidance]
• Model whistleblowing procedure [guidance]
• NHS ignores whistleblowing policy?
• A Model Anti-bullying Policy [guidance]
• How to Write an Ethics Code [guidance]
• How to Create an Ethics Committee [guidance]

• FTC's Financial services reform plan [guidance]
• LINKS in financial services ethics & law
• Some Publications in financial services ethics

• NHS whistleblowing - 12 ways to shoot the messenger [guidance]
• NHS whistleblowing continues in 2002: Gammon, Awotona, etc.
• Barros D'Sa: NHS Coventry whistleblower consultant 2001
• Whistleblowing nurse Amanda Pinkney ignored by managers (July 2001)
• Nurse John Kay blows whistle (Nov 2001)
• Resuscitation Policy, Special Schools & the whistleblower 2001-02
• Hospital suspensions continue (2002-04) 
• Medical secretary Irene Mounsey blows whistle (Aug 2002)
• Broadmoor whistleblower, Julia Wassell (March 2003)
• Doctors to be gagged (2003)?
• SARS and accountability, East and West (2003)
• NHS Finance Director Ian Perkin vindicated (2004-05)
• SARS whistleblower (2004)
• Arnold McCardle - mental hospital death (June 2005)

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• Child abuse in Wales -  FtC letter to Welsh Assembly (Oct 2003)
• New Social Care Code demands whistleblowing, but one-sided (2001-02)
• Cardiff whistleblower (2002)
• Worker speaks up on child protection case (2001-02)
• Wales Children Commissioner's Report (March 2003)
• Lisa Arthurworrey & the Victoria Climbié case (Oct 2004)
• Review of Webster's book on Bryn Estyn (June 2005)

ETHICS IN SCIENCE & RESEARCH

• Is that research project ethical? [Guidance]
• Conscience Clause for whistleblowing scientists? (2003)
• Human clones, cloning and public accountability (2002)
• Does HIV cause AIDS? - the whistleblowers (2004), LINK
• Al-Shahristani and Iraqi Science (Oct 2004)
• Global ecological collapse - who is accountable?
• EU Lobbyists block chemicals legislation (June 2005)
• Nanotechnology and/or Survival? (July 2003)
• New book on Nanotechnology risks and benefits (Feb 2006)
• GM potato whistleblower gets award (2006)
• Pharmaceutical whistleblower - Aubrey Blumsohn (2006)
• Engineering Ethics (PPT)

FOOD & AGRICULTURE

• BSE-CJD UK Inquiry Dr Narang speaks out here (2000)
• BSE and CJD: Failure of accountability (1996-2000)
• CJD spreading in USA & World? (2000)
• Mad cow whistleblower in USA (2004)
• Dr Harash Narang's books on BSE/CJD, and LINK to his website

• Police ethics -  Some Publications [guidance]
• Police Raids under Patriot Act a threat to U.S. civil liberties (2003)
• Human rights &Policing [guidance]
• Computer ethics checklist [guidance]
• Creating an Ethics committee [guidance]
• Model whistleblowing procedure [guidance]
• LINKS for police researchers
• OPAL 4 principles of ethical management in policing (1999) [guidance]
• Child Abuse & Accountability [guidance]
• Code of Ethics in Policing [guidance]
• Police Ideology & the Constitution (USA) LINK
• Is Ethical Policing Possible? - A Brainstorm (UK)
• Police killings in UK - FtC recommendations (April 2004) [guidance]
• Jean Charles de Menezes - the police whistleblower (2006)

ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT

• Russian whistleblower Aleksandr Nikitin acquitted (1999)
• Cartographer sacked for Alaska map on Internet (2001)
• Intelligence officer David Shayler blows whistle (2000-02)
• Unaccountable government: Royal prerogative & Executive Privilege (2003)
• Government privilege or accountability (2004)
• Katharine Gun blows whistle on USA's pressure on UK (2003-04)
• Daniel Ellsberg - new book, interviews (2004, 2005)
• Mordechai Vanunu blew whistle on Israel's WMD
• Chemicals & unaccountable lobbyists in EU law-making process (June 2005)
• Misleading by confusing precaution and pre-emption (July 2005)
• Arnold McCardle: Scottish Judiciary should answer (June 2005)

FtC's Campaign on Flintshire local government, UK

• Flintshire (1) - called to account at last (2000-01)?
• Flintshire (2) - Andy Sutton Blows Whistle (2002)
• Flintshire (3) - Andy Sutton tribunal (April 2002)
• Flintshire (4) - Andy Sutton, public interest report (Sept 2002)
• Flintshire (5) - Letter to First Minister (Oct 2002)
• Poor local government in Wales (2002)
• Flintshire (6) - Another Letter to First Minister (July 2003)
• Flintshire (7) - Photo of FTC Banner in Wales
• Poor management in Wrexham social services - a Personal Story (April 2003)
• Wrexham (8) - Bullying? (Aug 2003)
• Flintshire (9) - Andy Sutton faces quarter-million pound bill (Aug 2004)
• Flintshire (10) Statement by Andy Sutton 30th September 2004: The Appeal

WAR, GOVERNMENT & TRUTH

• LINK http://english.aljazeera.net
• LINK http://www.truthout.org
• The Continuing Significance of the 1980s Clive Ponting Case 
• Depleted Uranium - professor blows whistle (1997) 
• John Pilger Blows Whistle on USA/UK and destruction of Iraq (Feb 2003)
• Gulf War syndrome (2000-01)
• John Brady Kiesling blows whistle on lies about Iraq (2003)
• Kucinich demands WMD evidence (2003)
• Israeli conscientious objectors (2003)
• Dr David Kelly & Iraq War (Dec 2003)
• UK Civil Contingencies Bill is a threat to democracy (2004)
• US soldier Jeremy Hinzman says No! (2004)
• Karen Kwiatkowski's 'Pentagon Papers' (2004)
• UK Government without real accountability: The Hutton Report (April 2004)
• Iraq War - Money, Legality & Whistleblowers (June 2005)
• People's Jury on Iraq War (Nov 2005)
• Army doctor jailed for whistleblowing (2006)

ETHICS IN BUSINESS

• Internal audit is ineffective (2005)
• Campaign: Tobin Tax -Global Welfare Tax on Money Speculators?
• Corporate Responsibility initiatives (2000-02)
• Whistle blown on McDonald's lie to Hindus (June 2001)
• Sherron Watkins - Enron whistleblower (2002)
• Women whistleblowers Cynthia Cooper,Coleen Rowley, Sherron Watkins honoured (2002)

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