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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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Gordon Brown has called for an ‘unsung heroes day’ as part of his push to promote Britishness. The prime minister said he hoped every July 24 would become a day to “pay tribute to the people who represent the very best of Britain”. Launching his book Britain’s Everyday Heroes, Mr Brown called for a day… Read more »
MPs will today meet with older people for a mass lobby of parliament ahead of the age discrimination law review. Help the Aged is leading a lobby of over 250 older activists to meet with their representative in Parliament Square. The Just Equal Treatment Mass Lobby aims to hold the government to its manifesto pledge… Read more »
