Legal profession
MPs have voted 379 to 137 to back an amendment to take abortion out of English and Welsh criminal law for women in relation to their own pregnancies. Humanists UK has long been alarmed about the growing number of women facing police investigations for this. Today it has expressed delight at MPs standing up for… Read more »
Humanists UK’s Chief Executive Andrew Copson has been awarded an OBE for ‘services to the non-religious’ in the UK national honours announced today. This is the first time an award has been made for services to the non-religious, who now represent a majority of the UK’s population. Andrew Copson has worked for Humanists UK since… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff The BNP will be forced to pay legal costs in a case against their ‘whites only’ membership policy after turning up to court unprepared today. The party had waited until last night to brief their legal team on the matter, meaning the case had to be adjourned until October 15th. The party… Read more »
By Liz Stephens and Ian Dunt The UK government has published correspondence which appears to back its position over the release of Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi by the Scottish executive. The Scottish government followed suit in the afternoon by publishing background reports on the case. The letters support UK government assertions that no deal was done… Read more »
