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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 Catholic charity has lost a legal battle over whether it must open up the adoption process to gay couples. Catholic Care tried to have itself exempted from the provisions of the Equalities Act, which outlaws discrimination in the provision of goods and services. Religious groups were given a 21-month transition period… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The Conservatives’ deputy leader on the London Assembly has branded Simon Hughes “a d*ck”. James Cleverly made the comments on his Twitter account on the 100th day of the coalition. “We may be coalition partners but it doesn’t stop me thinking Simon Hughes is a d*ck,” he wrote. Speaking on his blog… Read more »
