Week News

• Barristers in England and Wales call off industrial action

• MP seeks stronger FoI powers after Grenfell fire and Carillion collapse

• Eight members of Oxford grooming ring jailed for sexual assault

• Liberal group launches ads attacking Trump’s potential Supreme Court picks

• Several firms follow Cravath after it beats Milbank on associate pay raises and adds bonuses

• Harvard sued for alleged discrimination against Asian American applicants

• Judge revokes bail for Manafort, cites new obstruction charges

Month News

• Democrat McCaskill defends no vote on Trump CIA pick – but can't say why

• Birmingham woman jailed for over four years in forced marriage case

• Capita’s wily scheme locks naive graduates into tied servitude

• Wait for partnership at Weil is reduced by two years in bid to retain more associates

• Apple tests security feature with potential to foil law enforcement

• Gay asylum seeker faces deportation from UK to Nigeria

Year News

• Ofcom clears Carter-Ruck client Al-Jazeera of bias in The Lobby

• The doctor who signed patients’ livers was silly, not criminal. The law is an ass

• Sweden plans change in law to require explicit consent before sexual contact

• Supreme Court declines to review controversial Mississippi ‘religious freedom’ law

• Ukip on brink of bankruptcy after £175,000 legal bill