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The High Court will consider a challenge to the laws requiring faith-based Christian religious education (RE) and collective worship in schools in Northern Ireland today. A non-religious family is mounting the legal challenge arguing the exclusively Christian nature of RE and worship violates their human rights. The case is being supported by Northern Ireland Humanists…. Read more »
Improvement to firearms licence condition welcomed by BASC Northern Ireland The UK’s largest shooting organisation, the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), has welcomed the introduction of a firearms certificate condition that will allow the licence holder to shoot any lawful quarry on land where they have the authority to shoot. The condition known… Read more »
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Patients faced with “undue delay” on the NHS can go abroad for treatment and have the taxpayer pick up the bill, the European Court ruled today. The judges made the decision in the case brought by Yvonne Watts, 74, who spent £3,900 on a hip operation in France after being told to wait up to… Read more »
The government is keen to get an agreement on a partly elected and partly appointed House of Lords, the minister in charge of the negotiations has said. Jack Straw, who was appointed leader of the House of Commons in the reshuffle earlier this month, said that despite his previous personal opposition to a fully appointed… Read more »
