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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 Environment Minister, Elliot Morely, has published a consultation paper setting out Government plans to tackle flooding and coastal erosion. The proposals, looking out over a 20-year period, take particular account of predictions that the frequency and severity of floods will increase due to climate change. In April this year the Office of Science and… Read more »
Today the Bank of England confirmed that the total amount of debt owed by the British people has hit the £1 trillion mark. Total lending to individuals grew by £11.2 billion, 1.1 per cent in June. The three-month (annualised) growth rate of 14.3 per cent was unchanged from May while the twelve-month growth rate rose… Read more »
