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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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By Blaine Williams Shops and businesses may be forced to accept Scottish bank notes by new legislation set by Parliament. The private members bill, being launched in the Commons by shadow Scottish secretary David Mundell, will set out legislation to require Scottish banknotes to be accepted everywhere in the UK. Mr Mundell said: “I think… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The Israel military has announced it has completed its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. However, troops remain around the Palestinian territory and Israeli vessels remains in Gaza’s territorial waters. “The last soldier left the Gaza Strip this morning,” an Israeli military official said on Wednesday, warning the troops on the outskirts would… Read more »
