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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 is investigating whether it has mistakenly issued thousands of illegal immigrants with national insurance numbers. Last year it emerged over 6,600 non-EU workers had been cleared for jobs after being issued national insurance numbers. And yesterday’s Channel 4 News claimed 900,000 national insurance numbers were given out between January 2004 and April 2007… Read more »
The government is prepared to nationalise Northern Rock with a decision possible within days, it was reported last night. Both the prime minister and chancellor confirmed nationalisation is “an option”, reinforcing the widely-held believe that the troubled lender will be forced into a temporary period of state ownership. Nevertheless the government continues to state that… Read more »
