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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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Lord Levy, the prime minister’s chief fundraiser and personal envoy to the Middle East, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of perverting the course of justice. It is the second time the peer has been arrested by police investigating the cash-for-peerages row – last July, he was arrested in connection with the sale of honours. He… Read more »
Lone parents on benefits could be forced to look for work earlier under new government plans intended to cut child poverty. Work and pensions secretary John Hutton said it was “not good enough” that a third of these people moved straight on to incapacity benefit or other support when their children reached 16, and they… Read more »
