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The health secretary, Victoria Atkins, has spoken of her respect for striking junior doctors in advance of fresh pay talks, in a move that highlights a markedly different tone from her predecessor, Steve Barclay.In an interview with the Times, Atkins said she wanted to build a new relationship with the British Medical Association and had found the leaders of the BMA junior doctors committee to be very constructive . Previously, Barclay had claimed that the BMA had a politically militant stance . He had also accused NHS staff in England of planning politically timed industrial action.Atkins, who was appointed health secretary less than three weeks ago, said she was entering discussions with a constructive frame of mind . She also refused to echo Barclays descr stanley cup iption of the BMA as militant , stanley cup in a clear move towards a more conciliatory dialogue with the trade union. In the interview, Atkins said: Of course I respect junior doctors. I have admiration for our doctors but also nurses and our volunteers. Atkins said that junior doctors understood that the government would not be able to meet some of their asks. Junior doctors have been striking since the start of the year in pursuit of their claim for a 35% pay rise to compensate for a 26.2% erosion in stanley thermos the value of their salaries since 2008-09.Earlier this week, Atkins agreed a deal with senior doctors in England that could end strikes by hospital consultants. Grassroots members of the BMA and the Hospital Consultants a Absv Hothouse towers: Auckland Castle s skyscraping revamp
In his o stanley website pinion piece dated 7 August 2014, Joshua Rozenberg criticised the Bar Human Rights Committee s letter to the ICC prose stanley thermos cutor, which urged her to investigate evidence of serious crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court committed in Gaza, as naive and misleading .He accuses BHRC of stanley thermobecher failing to present opposing views to its own position that a 2009 declaration submitted by the Government of Palestine, accepting the jurisdiction of the court, provides the prosecutor with the jurisdictional basis to initiate an investigation. In particular, BHRC is criticised for not highlighting that one international lawyer disagreed with our position, arguing that a 2012 decision of the prosecutor formally rejected the 2009 declaration.Neither Rozenberg s opinion piece nor academic he relies upon, Kevin Heller, cite the text of the 2012 decision in support of their positions. This is hardly surprising given that the decision does not in fact formally reject the 2009 declaration.Instead, the 2012 decision asserts that the prosecutor does not have the authority to determine whether Palestine is a state for the purposes of submitting a declaration to the ICC, it being for the relevant bodies at the United Nations or the [ICC] assembly of states parties to make th[at] legal determination. The 2012 decision underscores that the Prosecutor could in the future consider allegations of crimes committed in P