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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The Liberal Democrats today positioned themselves as the party to take radical action on climate change by promising to commit the UK to a carbon neutral future in elected. Delegates at the Lib Dem conference in Brighton overwhelmingly supported the party’s policy paper on climate change, including controversial commitments for no new nuclear power stations… Read more »
Menzies Campbell last night accused the government of “trampling on human rights” by eroding civil liberties and failing to defend the Human Rights Act. The Liberal Democrat leader called for an independent review of British freedoms to assess how much liberty has been lost under Labour. Speaking at a civil liberties rally at the Liberal… Read more »
