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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 Ministers are considering publishing details surrounding the pathologist’s report on the death of the weapons inspector Dr David Kelly in July 2003, according to media reports. The move would mean no inquest into the death would be required, sparing his widow further anguish. Over the weekend, Nicholas Hunt, the Home Office pathologist… Read more »
by Peter Wozniak The UK economy is far from out of the woods and remains at risk of sliding back into recession over the next year, according to the Band of England’s new policymaker Martin Weale. In an interview with the Times on Tuesday, Mr Weale admitted that the central bank’s growth forecasts may not… Read more »
