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Plans to limit legal fees in dental claims a welcome first step says DDU Responding to the publication of a government consultation on limiting claimant’s legal fees for cases valued up to £25,000, John Makin, head of the DDU, said: “This consultation has been a long time coming and is a welcome first step. However, for a… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has appointed Mr Jerard Ross as head of Scottish affairs to champion the interests of the MDU’s growing number of members in Scotland. Over the last four years Scottish membership has grown almost 30%, according to the MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation. Jerard, who has worked at the… Read more »
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Current drugs policy is not working and needs to be radically restructured, a commission on illegal drugs has recommended. Drug addiction should be treated as a chronic health and social problem, not a crime, the RSA commission recommends, with responsibility for drugs policy transferring from the Home Office to Department for Communities and Local Government…. Read more »
David Cameron smoked cannabis while at secondary school, a new biography has claimed. Today’s allegations about the Conservative leader’s alleged misbehaviour as a teen come in a biography by journalists Francis Elliott and James Hanning published in the Independent on Sunday newspaper. The book cites contemporaries of Mr Cameron claiming that the 15-year-old Conservative leader-to-be… Read more »
