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 Pro-Tibet activists are putting pressure on Gordon Brown to secure action from China on the 50th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising. More than 80,000 people are thought to have died in the 1959 revolt, which saw the Dalai Lama flee to India. A coalition of UK-based Tibet groups has written to the… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The United States was only able to pursue its extraordinary rendition policy with the help of allies during the Bush administration’s war on terror, including Britain, a UN report is expected to say today. A final report from the UN special rapporteur on torture and secret detention is expected to criticise intelligence… Read more »
