Week News

• Criminal cases backlog could take a decade to clear, watchdog warns

• Belgium mulls charges over 1961 killing of Congo's first elected leader

• MoJ favours 'Nightingale' crown courts to tackle huge backlog of cases

• High court hears legal challenge to England's lockdown restrictions

• Barclays: Qataris spoke to Gordon Brown to 'defuse 2008 bailout pressure'

• End Covid-19 jail visiting ban for children in England and Wales, MPs urge

• Human rights in focus Priti Patel accused of 'shameful' bid to deport girl at risk of FGM

Month News

• Charles Bronson wins first step in fight for public parole hearing

• UK's top prosecutor threatened with legal action over failure to investigate Dominic Cummings

• UN human rights chief calls for reparations to make amends for slavery

• EU demands release of Chinese human rights lawyer jailed for four years

• Australian defence force remains at Queensland border despite high court challenge

• Abandon trial by jury? That would hardly restore trust in the justice system

Year News

• Cooley Law School cuts tuition and seeks to close satellite campus

• The Guardian view on the rise in domestic killings: figures to shock politicians to act

• The Guardian view on attitudes to rape: from Ayia Napa to Manchester

• CPS 'struggling to cope' in disclosing evidence to defendants – report

• Chris Packham begins legal case to halt HS2 amid coronavirus crisis