Westminster Council is proposing to cut the benefits of overweight and unhealthy people who don’t exercise enough, according to the BBC.
Under the plans, GPs would be allowed to prescribe fitness classes in an aim to cut £5bn from the NHS budget.
Human Rights
A tragic death linked to the law on abortion in Eire was reported by the media this week. Praveen Halappanavar says that his wife, 31-year-old Savita Halappanavar, died a painful death in University Hospital Galway after being ‘refused’ an abortion during the miscarriage she was suffering.
According to the Daily Mail, the husband was told by hospital staff that Ireland is a ‘Catholic country’ and birth cannot be induced while there is still a foetal heart-beat, even though his wife was in difficulties.
The Telegraph reported yesterday on the considerations of a High court judge when deciding whether to allow an appeal by a convicted felon, regarding the practice of ‘slopping out’, which lingers in some older UK prisons after being largely phased out in the 1990s.
In the original claim last year, two former inmates argued that slopping out, or using a bucket for toilet purposes when locked in a cell and the later emptying of the bucket at a sluice, contravened their human rights under Articles 3 and 8 of the European Convention (ECHR).
