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Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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The Government’s plans to reform the civil service pensions’ scheme are expected to result in “difficult and lengthy” negotiations. Under the proposals, which if approved would apply to new entrants from April 6th 2006, and to existing staff as of April 1st 2013, the pension age for civil servants would be increased to 65. The… Read more »
A total end to IRA activities and the destruction of all arms is on the cards, but the taking of photographs is unacceptable and would be a humiliation. The declaration from the IRA has come in a statement to the Republican newspaper An Phoblacht, following Wednesday’s publication of the negotiating documents for a final settlement… Read more »
