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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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Council tax is not ‘broken’ but does need to be made fairer, a government-commissioned review concluded today. As part of this reform, the government should consider re-valuing properties to make the rich pay more and the poor less, Sir Michael Lyons concluded as he published his three-year long study into local government finances. It recommends… Read more »
Council tax bills in England and Wales could rise by an average of £53 a year, an independent investigation has discovered. The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) forecasts council tax for band D properties will increase by £53, or 4.2 per cent, to £1,302 in 2007-08. Commissioned by BBC Radio 4’s Today… Read more »
