The UN and partners are in a race against time to provide life-saving assistance to people fleeing escalating violence in Anbar, particularly around the battle for Fallujah.

The Bar Council says it will work with parliamentarians to place statutory protection for legal privilege in the Investigatory Powers Bill. 

As the Investigatory Powers Bill returns to the Commons this week, Shadow Home Office Minister Keir Starmer calls for Theresa May to "go further and concede in the other remaining areas of concern."

MPs, economists and the Government debate the merits of the trade deal, and the controversial ISDS courts that allow private companies to sue nation-states.

Consumer watchdog Which? calls for tighter rules on broadband advertising so the majority of customers get the speeds offered, not just a minimum of 10%.

A Home Affairs Select Committee report on the failure to deport foreign criminals is not a reason to quit the European Union, according to two Labour and Tory MPs.

The Bar Council responds to today’s figures from the Judicial Appointments Commission reveal that black and minority ethnic lawyers applying to become judges are far less likely to succeed than their white counter-parts. 

Joint statement by Dr. Ala Alwan, WHO Regional Director, and Dr. Peter Salama, UNICEF Regional Director

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) has said there is a strong case for the Solicitors Qualifying Exam (SQE), but has extended its timetable so that it can work on getting the detail right before making a final decision.

The Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is proposing to increase access to legal services by removing unnecessary bureaucracy and freeing up solicitors to work in new markets.

Phil Golding has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Law Commission. 

The Bar Council has responded to today’s report from the Public Accounts Committee, on the criminal justice system.

The Office for National Statistics has today released figures for net migration. Mark Hilton, immigration director of London First, said:

The former shadow home secretary calls for a change in attitudes to online abuse and intimidation as she calls on people to #reclaimtheinternet.

Professor Alison Harcourt from the University of Exeter's Department of Politics writes about the Digital Economy Bill, announced in last week's Queen's Speech.

The Second Chamber is dominated by peers from the capital, Labour's Lord Foulkes reveals to PoliticsHome, attending to a metropolitan elite, rather than ordinary people.

A new report from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has reinforced the importance of carbon capture and storage (CCS) to a UK low carbon energy system and identified an effective way of reducing costs deploying existing technology and utilising shared infrastructure, rather than investment in further technology advances.

Simon Harrison, Chair of the IET Energy Policy Panel, said:

Better treatment and protection for police firearms officers trying to protect the public is urgently needed.

That’s the key message of a feature report in ‘Policing for the Future’, a 60-minute news and current affairs-style programme, produced by the Police Federation of England and Wales and ITN Productions.

University of Exeter experts will collect large amounts of propaganda put on the internet by Islamic State terrorists in real time to understand how it radicalises people.

Over half of British university students do not know when the EU referendum is taking place, according to a new poll published today.

Emman El-Badawy, a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, explains why the Government must be more nuanced in its approach to tackling extremism.

UNICEF UK is calling on the UK Government to sign up to the Safe Schools Declaration, sending a clear message to the world that schools must not be attacked or occupied for military purposes.

The Chairman of the Bar has responded to the Queen’s Speech, delivered today.