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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 Ministry of Defence (MoD) is taking steps to help prevent a recurrence of the capture of Royal Navy personnel in March, MPs say. Eight Royal Navy marines and seven sailors were abducted from their patrol boat in the Shatt al-Arab waterway on March 23rd by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, prompting “national embarrassment” according to… Read more »
