Week News

• MI5 policy 'gives agents legal immunity to commit serious crimes'

• More than 450 inmates are released in this state in largest one-day commutation in US history

• From the Guardian archive Innocent plead guilty – archive, 1972

• Farage-fronted group of MEPs unfairly treated over funds, court finds

• Lawyer who blamed missed hearing on grandfather’s death is ordered to supply proof

• Judge says he’d consider giving reduced sentence to rapist if he paid $150K to victim

• If a woman is raped, is there any point in her reporting it?

Month News

• ‘I carry my experience like a dead body. But this flat means I can start again’

• Farewell the ‘porn block’ – a PR exercise and lousy policy

• As machines play a greater role in criminal justice, third-party auditing and oversight is essential

• Demystifying mergers and acquisitions in legal tech

• Woman gets 22 years in prison after showing up at her lawyer’s office with a loaded shotgun

• Afternoon Briefs: Judge bans trick-or-treat warning signs; Johnny Depp settles fee dispute

Year News

• Pornography of adult consensual sex no longer taboo, says CPS

• Kavanaugh statement questions exclusion of churches from historic preservation funds

• Spending on jail staff legal fees 46-times more than for bereaved

• Sajid Javid wants high court hearing into MI5 failures to be secret

• The Warwick 'rape chat' case exposes universities' failings on sexual violence