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The tragic death of 12-year-old Archie Battersbee after the removal of life support last August, following a High Court order of Mr Justice Hayden, continues to plague the UK’s international relations.

A London NHS Trust has settled a discrimination case with a Catholic chaplain who was ousted for answering questions from a patient on a psychiatric ward about the Church’s teaching on marriage.

In a ground-breaking judgment, with widespread implications for the press reporting of all legal proceedings, the Court of Appeal has this morning ended life-long anonymity protection for doctors in medical cases including in hugely controversial end-of-life cases.  The ruling may potentially lead to the discharging of anonymity orders made in dozens of similar cases.

This Friday, two grieving families who have challenged the secrecy of life and death proceedings in the Family Division of the High Court, expect judgment in their case. 

A Christian theology lecturer with five young children has been sacked and threatened with a Counter-Terrorism referral by a Methodist bible college for a tweet on human sexuality that went viral.