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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 »
Jess Phillips has said the implementation of recommendations made by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) will be completed “as quickly as can possibly be done”. Speaking at Home Office questions in response to Liberal Democrat MP Dr Danny Chambers, Phillips said she had spent the weekend dealing with cases in her Birmingham… Read more »
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has dismissed a call to establish a commission on electoral reform. Rayner was responding to a question from Liberal Democrat MP Olly Glover, who raised concerns about the electoral system and pointed to apparent public support for changes. Glover said: “Most parties in this House, representing a collective total of… Read more »
