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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has successfully supported a GP member with a series of investigations that followed a patient death. The GP was eventually exonerated, but not before responding to a complaint, claim, NHS England investigation and GMC investigation over a five-year period. The MDU is encouraging healthcare professionals to get support from colleagues… Read more »
Humanists UK is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. Whereas the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act received Royal Assent on 17 July 2013, it took some time to implement this change, so the Act only came into force the following year. The first same-sex marriages took place just after midnight… Read more »
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Lord Scarman, who chaired the investigation into the Brixton riots has died at the age of 93. His report, which found that both the local community and the police were to blame for the three days of disturbances which swept Brixton and spread to northern cities such as Liverpool, is now widely credited with bringing… Read more »
A new bill has been published that would see the law of male primogeniture, whereby the eldest son inherits the throne, abandoned. The move – which would allow older sisters to inherit the throne – is part of a new bill that attempts to modernise and reform the monarchy. There is most definitely no suggestion… Read more »
