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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 is facing legal action after it terminated a private IT contract. ITNET had been awarded an £83 million contract in July 2003 to build a data housing centre for the Office of the e-Envoy, designed to host government websites. However the Cabinet Office announced on Tuesday that it had terminated the contract, accusing… Read more »
The Intelligence and Security Committee has highlighted a number of areas of vulnerability in the UK’s security infrastructure. Today it published its annual report for 2003-04, having taken evidence from a wide range of sources, including ministers and the heads of security services. Although the report is publicly available, certain sections and figures are blanked… Read more »
