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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 economy has shrunk even more than analysts expected in the first quarter of the year. Experts were expecting today’s gross domestic product (GDP) figures to be roughly equivalent to the final quarter of last year – showing a contraction of 1.6 per cent. But data came in showing a 1.9 per… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Titan prisons look set to become the first government project to fall victim to the Budget. Both the Independent and the BBC are reporting that justice secretary Jack Straw will scrap the scheme. But an official Ministry of Justice statement read: “The justice secretary will make a statement on this issue shortly… Read more »
