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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 mayor of New York, Michael Bloomberg, is meeting his new London counterpart for the first time today. Boris Johnson is expected to discuss crime strategies with visitor before he joins David Cameron for a tour of a London school. During his campaign, Mr Johnson promised to bring in New York anti-crime strategies such as… Read more »
The Department of Transport (Dft) is being accused of trying to hide poor results after it released disappointing the figures yesterday in a large batch of reports on congestion. The figures show the government has not only failed to cut the amount of time motorists are sitting in traffic jams on motorways and A-roads, but… Read more »
