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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A Scottish MP is “optimistic” that his proposals for saving the majority of Scotland’s infantry regiments will be adopted by the Government. Eric Joyce, MP for Falkirk West, has submitted plans to the Ministry of Defence under which the Royal Scots regiment and King’s Own Scottish Borderers regiment would be merged but the rest of… Read more »
Her Majesty the Queen will lead a series of commemorative events across the UK next summer to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. The Ministry of Defence today unveiled its programme of events, which will begin on July 10 2005 with a service of thanksgiving and commemoration in Westminster… Read more »
