From the committee corridor
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 »
The chair of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has rubbished the last government’s response to her policy recommendations. Professor Alexis Jay said she experienced complete silence from the Home Office after publishing 20 recommendations at the end of the seven-year inquiry in October 2022. She told the House of Commons home affairs… Read more »
The attorney general has described the threat posed by populism as “one of the most profound challenges of our age”. Under question at the justice select committee on Wednesday morning, Lord Hermer reflected on the importance of the rule of law and argued that the government must “explain” its importance “more than ever before”. The… Read more »
