Human Rights
BASC Scotland has reinforced its calls for a community deer management pilot scheme in light of a new round of Scottish government deer contracts. The Scottish government agency responsible for managing publicly-owned forestry – Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) – has announced plans to cull a fifth of Scotland’s wild deer population over the next… Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) says it is extremely worrying that the amount of money earmarked to cover the total cost of clinical negligence claims (including both including IBNR and PPOs) against the NHS in England has risen to £128.6 billion. This is an increase on the previous year’s figure of £85.2 billion and the… Read more »
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The government has welcomed the decision to deport Abu Qatada, after the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) dismissed an appeal in a key test for the government’s anti terror policy. The commission ruled that the militant cleric is a threat to UK national security and should be deported to Jordan. The case was seen as… Read more »
Parliament has approved control orders for another year after the Conservatives “reluctantly” voted with the government. Introducing the renewal vote, security minister Tony McNulty told MPs that control orders are still necessary to combat the “serious and sustained” terrorism threat which the UK faces. Control orders allow terror suspects to be closely monitored when there… Read more »
