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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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Clegg: Putting values above paranoia
By Peter Wozniak Britain will fight to win guarantees that that an EU bailout fund designed for natural disasters will not be used to prop up the eurozone today. The prime minister is pushing for EU leaders to develop a legally binding agreement that Article 122 of the Lisbon Treaty – which was used to… Read more »
