Week News

• Government rejects report it will lower workers' rights post-Brexit

• Other lives Andrew Williamson obituary

• Shed parties and illegal races: UK police crack down on Covid rulebreakers

• UN countries challenge Australia's Indigenous incarceration record in human rights review

• Facebook claims it does not conduct business in Australia in Cambridge Analytica appeal

• 'Eye watering': top police officer laments rate of stop and search on young black men

• David Perry QC quits prosecution of Hong Kong activists

Month News

• Check out our favorite reads from 2020

• The Guardian view on Julian Assange's extradition ruling: relief, not victory

• Non-fatal strangulation set to become criminal offence in UK

• Ghislaine Maxwell appeals bail rejection while awaiting trial

• The Guardian view on lockdown law: democracy must keep up

• ‘White Fright’ author discusses historical lynch mobs and the attack on the Capitol

Year News

• Egypt says film-maker died in cell after drinking hand sanitiser

• George Floyd-style killing 'could happen in the UK', says Michael Fuller

• Australian war crimes allegations: defence chief says commanders will be held accountable 'case by case'

• Indefinite sentences 'the greatest single stain on justice system'

• UK justice system treats victims of crime 'like bystanders'