Justice System
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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It feels like every week the government comes up with a new piece of legislation to protect itself against its critics. The policing bill silenced protestors, the nationalities bill restricted asylum claims and there’ll soon be an attack of some form on the Human Rights Act. But right now it’s the turn of judicial review…. Read more »
The Pitchfork case raises a profound moral conundrum.
