Legal profession
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has appointed Dr Caroline Fryar as professional services director to lead the team guiding, supporting, and defending healthcare professionals with ethical and medico-legal issues. Dr Fryar has worked at the MDU for seventeen years in various roles, most recently as director of medical services. She was previously a GP. Caroline… Read more »
Royal Mail has shelved plans to impose a blanket ban on the carriage of knives which would have unfairly penalised the shooting community and hundreds of small businesses across the country. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) wrote to Royal Mail’s chief executive pointing out that the ban would severely impact retailers across the… Read more »
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Home Office plans to criminalise the buying of sex from women “controlled for another person’s gain” will be officially unveiled today. The plans are ostensibly to stop human trafficking, but government sources privately admit around 90 per cent of transactions would be covered by the law. The only way a prostitute can now escape the… Read more »
Members of the British National party (BNP) are being bombarded with phone calls after a list naming them was published on the web. Party spokesperson Simon Darby told politics.co.uk hundreds of members were receiving phone calls “on an industrial basis” and accused trade union call centres of being responsible. He said the case was in… Read more »
