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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Internet companies need to establish a body which can regulate goings-on on the web, a committee of MPs has said. “The internet has transformed all our lives and is overwhelmingly a force for good,” said John Whittingdale, chairman of the culture, media and sport committee. “However, there is a dark side and many parents are… Read more »
Foreign students coming to the UK will be forced to provide the government with their fingerprints and prove they are sponsored by a recognised education institution, under new government guidelines announced today. “All those who come to Britain must play by the rules,” said border and immigration minister Liam Byrne. “It is right that foreign… Read more »
