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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 Peter Wozniak Changes to the way police employ stop and search powers discriminate against ethnic minorities, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has claimed. The guidelines under Section 60 of the Public Order Act will give officers broad discretion to use someone’s race as a factor in deciding to initiate a search. The… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Millions of unregistered voters will be targeted by the government in a bid to increase turnouts, Nick Clegg will announce today. The deputy prime minister will speak in Westminster to the Hansard society and the Political Studies Association – outlining how the government is looking to get apathetic voters registered. Mr Clegg… Read more »
