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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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Mervyn King will continue to serve as governor of the Bank of England, it was confirmed this morning. The 59-year-old was reappointed by the Queen after Gordon Brown finally affirmed his confidence in the governor. There had been widespread speculation Mr King’s re-appointment hung in the balance as a result of his initial response to… Read more »
Alistair Darling has unveiled proposals to make it easier for the banking authorities to take over troubled banks. The move will enable the Bank of England and Financial Services Authority (FSA) to launch a secret takeover of a failing bank, in a bid to prevent a repeat of last year’s run on Northern Rock. The… Read more »
