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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 Data on late abortions performed because of minor disabilities should remain confidential, the government will argue today. The Department of Health (DoH) will argue in court that the decision to keep details of the numbers of abortions for conditions like club foot and cleft palate be maintained. In 2008, the information commissioner… Read more »
By politics.co.uk Seven million people use illegal files in the UK causing major losses to the economy, new research revealed today. The report commissioned by the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property (SABIP) showed how large-scale illegal downloading caused by general confusion over online copyright law is costing the economy tens of billions of pounds…. Read more »
