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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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Here is a rundown of the full list of bills from the King’s Speech 2023: GROWING THE ECONOMY Offshore Petroleum Licensing Bill “Legislation will be introduced to strengthen the United Kingdom’s energy security and reduce reliance on volatile international energy markets and hostile foreign regimes. This Bill will support the future licensing of new oil… Read more »
Parliament today heard the annual King’s Speech, as Rishi Sunak laid out his legislative plans for the year ahead. It was King Charles III’s first such speech as monarch, and the first of the prime minister’s tenure in No 10. It is also potentially the last before a general election, which must be held by January… Read more »
