Week News

• Labour candidate suing union says Labour has moved too far to left

• Suit seeking to hold gunmaker liable in Sandy Hook shootings can proceed after SCOTUS denies cert

• Is Texas death row inmate innocent? ABA president urges clemency to prevent ‘irreversible act’

• Syrian refugees ask Norway police to investigate war crimes

• Years after her death, my wife may yet change New Zealand's law on euthanasia

• Why are experienced women lawyers leaving BigLaw? Survey looks for answers and finds big disparities

• Lawyer didn’t lie to judge about grandfather’s death but fudged the date, letter reveals

Month News

• 4 drug companies agree to $260M opioid settlement with 2 Ohio counties

• Supporters of banned groups in UK face tougher sentences

• Afternoon Briefs: Legal words flummox child murder defendant; judge nixes ‘The Godfather Part II’ clip

• The Guardian view on the migrant tragedy in Essex: a border crackdown is not the way forward

• Afternoon Briefs: NYC bar calls for Barr’s Ukraine recusal; law school renamed after donor

• Agreement to destroy frozen embryos upon divorce is enforceable, top state court rules

Year News

• Trump adviser Roger Stone is charged with lying about WikiLeaks and contacts with Trump campaign

• Ministers' £6.5m for legal aid a drop in the ocean, say lawyers

• The infected blood inquiry reminds us we need a less painful way to deal with health failings

• Who’s your favorite SCOTUS justice and why?

• Police use of child spies in criminal gangs is lawful, high court rules