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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 Comments from Alan Duncan about MPs being forced to live on rations are “particularly worrying”, according to the former sleaze watchdog. The shadow Leader of the House also suffered the humiliation of having leader David Cameron rebuke him in public for the comments today. Sir Alistair Graham said people struggling through the… Read more »
By Liz Stephens Nearly a quarter of FTSE 100 companies will be unable to pay off their pension deficits, a report has claimed. The report by accountancy form KPMG says 22 per cent of major firms will not be able to make the necessary payments. Final-salary pension schemes are now at “tipping point” with many… Read more »
