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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 last night won a vote to overturn objections to a new treaty on extraditing suspected criminals to and from the US. MPs voted 320 to 263 to reject three amendments voted by the House of Lords this summer that would have forced the US to provide evidence – rather than just information –… Read more »
Up to 1,000 pensioners will descend on Westminster today to demand an immediate increase in the state pension. The National Pensioners Convention (NPC) warns the government’s plans to raise the level of the state pension by restoring the link with earnings by 2012 will come too late for the 2.5 million pensioners currently living below… Read more »
