Week News

• Poland should get less from Covid-19 fund due to rights record, claim EU member states

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

• We need far more coronavirus tests in British prisons

• Injured boy 'stopped and searched' by Met officer he asked for help

• Role of UK judges in Hong Kong appeal court comes under scrutiny

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

• Prince Andrew's silence is a 'torture test' for Epstein's alleged victims, says lawyer

Month News

• After Sally Challen, we now have a chance to tackle coercive control

• What’s lost when jury trials vanish?

• Ministers face threat of high court case over UK riot gear sales to US

• Criminal justice system failing disabled defendants, EHRC warns

• Probation services to return to public control after Grayling disasters

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

Year News

• Appeals court blocks lawyer’s contempt arrest for failing to return law firm files

• Alabama man sentenced to life for stealing $50 to be released from prison

• Secret CPS targets may have led to rape cases being dropped

• SCOTUS accepts pro se appeal that could upend hundreds of convictions

• How to kick off 2020 with more productive business meetings