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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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Joe Biden included Irish Taoiseach Micheál Martin in his first calls to European leaders as President-elect. Biden also made calls to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, French President Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Ireland has become a sticking point in Brexit negotiations recently. The government’s controversial Internal Market bill has drawn criticism for potentially undermining the… Read more »
