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Paragraph 18.1 also suggests that, having completed her probation period satisfactorily, Ms Scott was dismissed by the new firm because of the (risk of) impending disciplinary proceedings in the Tribunal.

How does that work? The charges (if they had been laid at all by that stage) were not proven by the time she was dismissed. One could be forgiven for thinking that this looks like an employer dismissing someone for being a whistleblower (albeit in relation to her previous employer) and then making a witness statement which states (wrongly) that she didn't complete her probationary period.

If you make a mistake of that magnitude in your witness statement, you make a fresh statement which corrects it: you don't wait until Ms Scott cross-examines you about it at trial.

In the light of Mr Philip's comments about not victimising whistleblowers, what does the SRA have to say about this? Nothing, presumably.

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