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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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By politics.co.uk staff United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon will meet with Argentina’s foreign minister as opposition to Britain’s ongoing sovereignty over the Falkland Islands rises. It follows a summit of Latin American leaders who roundly condemned Britain’s control over the islands known by all those in the region as ‘Las Malvinas’. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Latin American states have united to back Argentina’s claim over the Falkland Islands at a summit in Mexico. Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean backed her country’s claim over the island, where a British petroleum company is currently exploring for oil. The agreement… Read more »
