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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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Prime minister’s speech to the Northern Ireland Assembly.
Controversial water bills for Northern Ireland will not be introduced in 2007-08 after the Stormont executive launched a review of water and sewerage financing. The review will include the future of the Northern Ireland Water company, which was set up under direct rule. It is expected to report in the autumn and no water bills… Read more »
