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 Ian Dunt British politics appears to have slipped over to Switzerland for the weekend, with the Davos summit attracting argument and drama. Gordon Brown called for global unity in the face of the financial crisis in a press conference with UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon this morning. He was briefly interrupted when a mobile… Read more »
By Laura Miller Councillors will soon be allowed to stay at home instead of attending meetings and vote by remote control – but still claim thousands in expenses. Ministers are continuing to back plans that would encourage “remote” voting at council meetings, despite facing heavy criticism from other MPs. Caroline Spelman, shadow communities and local… Read more »
