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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 director general of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has called on Labour activists not to seek to dilute the party’s pro-business credentials. In an article aimed to coincide with the Labour Party’s National Policy Forum (NPF) taking place this weekend, Digby Jones urged activists to seek to build on its relationship with business,… Read more »
The Code of Conduct covering the actions of MPs inside, and outside, of the Commons is to be reviewed. The Code was first introduced in 1995 with the aim of overcoming “problems of principle and practice over the separation of public and private interests, which damage the standing of Parliament” and designed to restore the… Read more »
