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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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Senior cabinet ministers yesterday sought to distance themselves from Jack Straw’s claims that the veil worn by Muslim women was a “statement of separation”. Deputy prime minister John Prescott and health secretary Patricia Hewitt said they would not ask women to remove the veil when speaking to them during constituency surgeries, as Mr Straw has… Read more »
