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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will be pushing for “meaningful improvements” within a Defra-published public consultation on a series of proposals to the dog microchipping regulations. The Microchipping of Dogs (England) Regulations were introduced in 2015 to increase re-unification rates of lost and stolen dogs, benefiting dog welfare and saving local authorities… Read more »
After a successful campaign to improve the safe space provisions in the Health and Care Bill, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) explains why this is a step forward for patient safety. Following its return from the House of Lords to the House of Commons this week, both chambers have now agreed that coroners should not routinely… Read more »
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The home secretary has lost his attempt to overrule a court order granting nine Afghan hijackers leave to remain in the UK and seek work. The Court of Appeal today upheld a previous court ruling that to keep the nine men, who arrived in Britain six years ago after hijacking a plane to flee the… Read more »
The government has won the right to send failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe, after a court decided there was no automatic risk of their being tortured on return. Immigration minister Liam Byrne said the government would now resume the enforced deportation of Zimbabweans who it considered were not at genuine risk of ill-treatment. However,… Read more »
