The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has successfully supported a GP member with a series of investigations that followed a patient death. The GP was eventually exonerated, but not before responding to a complaint, claim, NHS England investigation and GMC investigation over a five-year period. The MDU is encouraging healthcare professionals to get support from colleagues… Read more »
Humanists UK is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. Whereas the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act received Royal Assent on 17 July 2013, it took some time to implement this change, so the Act only came into force the following year. The first same-sex marriages took place just after midnight… Read more »
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The role of the attorney general has come under further criticism today with MPs unhappy that the position still combines the function of chief legal adviser and government minister. The report by the Commons’ justice committee claims the revisions to the role proposed in the draft constitutional renewal bill do not answer the fundamental problem… Read more »
The “moral case” for invading Zimbabwe has been made but there are too many practical constraints preventing the operation, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said. Mr Clegg made the statement at his first major foreign policy speech, during which he described the kind of ‘liberal interventionism’ his party would support. Mr Clegg said the… Read more »
