Whistleblower protection and the public interest | Letters

Public distrust of elites makes legitimate access to “official data” ever more vital (Whistleblowers ‘face full-frontal legal onslaught’, 13 February).The Law Commission’s report states that “criminalisation is limited to the unauthorised disclosure of those categories of information that have implications for the national interest” (page 1). But scope for flexibility in defining the term’s meaning is illustrated in a later comment, “min