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 Four policemen facing prosecution over allegations they beat and verbally abused a terror suspect have not been suspended by the Metropolitan police. Instead Police Constables Cowley, John Donohue, Roderick James-Bowen and Mark Jones have been placed on restricted duties, the Met said last night. The four will appear before magistrates next month… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The Conservatives are likely to be the big beneficiaries of plans to cut the number of MPs, research has suggested. Projections by Democratic Audit for the BBC2’s Newsnight programme found the Conservatives would lose four per cent of their seats, or 13 of their 307 seats, if the coalition government’s proposals to… Read more »
