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Jain v Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust [2018] EWHC 3016 (QB)

Mediation in the context of an employment claim; whether mediation report was confidential

Mr Justice Swift considered, inter alia, whether the NHS Trust had breached a duty of confidence to the employee by sharing a mediation report with an individual appointed to carry out an independent inquiry into working relationships in the team which the Claimant had been a part of.

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