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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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The DUP and Sinn Fein have agreed to form a power-sharing executive to govern Northern Ireland from May 8th. In an historic occasion, DUP leader Ian Paisley revoked his long-standing policy of not talking to Sinn Fein to meet for the first time with republican leader Gerry Adams. The two leaders agreed on a timetable… Read more »
The Northern Ireland assembly will receive an additional £1 billion of investment, providing it can agree on a power sharing agreement by midnight on Monday. Gordon Brown met with Northern Ireland leaders today to outline the additional funding the assembly can expect from London and Dublin. Aside from the £35 billion already pledged to the… Read more »
