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 politics.co.uk staff This Thursday’s G20 summit will see world leaders agree international rules governing bankers’ bonuses, Gordon Brown has said. The prime minister’s announcement came after he delivered a speech on morality in the global recession to a gathering at St Paul’s Cathedral in London. Banking bonuses, which have caused Mr Brown a major… Read more »
By Laura MIller The government has brought forward the inquiry into MPs expenses in the wake of a series of embarrassing scandals including Jacqui Smith’s claim for two porn films ordered by her husband. The Committee on Standards and Public Life will defer work on a current enquiry so the new inquiry, which was not… Read more »
