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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 politics.co.uk staff The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has found no evidence it was misled by the News of the World over allegations the paper hacked into the phone of numerous celebrities and public figures. The report – the first into the allegations which exploded in Westminster in the summer following a Guardian expose –… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Gordon Brown is attending the ceremony to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall today, together with leaders from across the globe. “The wall that had imprisoned half a city, half a country, half a continent, half a world for nearly a third of a century was swept… Read more »
