Human Rights
Responding to today’s publication by the GMC of its report in to doctors who have died while under investigation or during a period of monitoring, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that lessons must be learned, and improvements made. The report reveals that between 1 January 2018 and 31 December 2020, of the 29 doctors who sadly… Read more »
The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) will not accept “rewarding failure” in the upcoming review of firearms licensing fees in England, Scotland and Wales. The review has been launched by the Home Office. A Fees Working Group, which includes representatives from BASC and the British Shooting Sports Council, has been set up. Its… Read more »
Latest articles
By Ian Dunt The head of MI5 has been pushed into an unprecedented intervention in the continuing row over British collusion in torture. Jonathan Evans, the director-general of MI5, hit back at the “conspiracy theory” that MI5 had anything to do with torture. The comments come just days after a letter to Lord Neuberger, the… Read more »
By Ian Dunt The British Airways (BA) employee suspended for refusing to remove a small crucifix has lost her appeal against the company. The court of appeal upheld the employment appeal tribunal’s judgement from 2008 which found that the ban against Nadia Eweida was not discriminatory because Christians do not generally wear the cross as… Read more »
