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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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After months of waiting, Lord Justice Leveson’s report has finally been published. Review our live coverage in which we assessed its contents – and the political reaction – this afternoon.
It is hard to imagine what the Leveson inquiry can do to stop sites showing material that is not actually illegal, such as topless pictures of Kate Middleton and naked pictures of Prince Harry.
