Week News

• Countries where smacking children is banned 'are safer to grow up in'

• Court quashes fracking protesters' 'excessive' jail sentences

• The Guardian view on the Gender Recognition Act: where rights collide

• Lawyers on opposite sides of #MeToo litigation face off in suit over crowdsourced accusation list

• Interpol ex-chief may be dead, wife fears, after capture by Chinese

• Regulator loses appeal against law firm over Iraq war claims

• UK is endangering people's health by denying their right to clean air, says UN

Month News

• Simplify a tedious deposition review with technology

• Trump again backs Kavanaugh but says lying to Senate would be unacceptable

• Young people are rewiring capitalism with their McStrike

• Lawsuits target law reviews at Harvard and NYU, saying they favor women and minorities

• 'Out of control': prison watchdog warns of synthetic drug crisis

• Florida lawyer who uses ‘Ever Argued With a Woman?’ slogan sues law firm for alleged infringement

Year News

• ABA letter expresses concern about execution of death-row inmate with mental-illness history

• The day I came face to face with General Slobodan Praljak in The Hague

• Second Amendment is a ‘disfavored right’ in the Supreme Court, Thomas says in cert-denial dissent

• Apple and Samsung settle patent litigation case—finally

• Courts get punishment guidelines for revenge porn offences