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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 A California-based website which helps pimps sell women online should be shut down, Harriet Harman has told Labour delegates in Brighton. The equality minister said Punternet, which allows men who have had sex with the women involved to post their comments online, was a “very sinister development” which had to be stopped…. Read more »
On a day when the media’s influence in politics is the number one topic of conversation, politics.co.uk reviews what the papers have been saying about Gordon Brown’s leader’s speech. By Alex Stevenson The Sun In one of the most decisive moments in the tabloid’s history, reflecting its repudiation of Neil Kinnock before the 1992 election… Read more »
