The rundown of this week’s top news stories.
- Facebook letter fails to satisfy DCMS chair Damian Collins [via BBC News]
- Registered European lawyers given until 2021 to requalify [via The Law Society Gazette]
- Law and order: Extra £85m for CPS to tackle violent crime [via BBC News]
- SRA recruits candidates for second super-exam pilot [via The Law Society Gazette]
- Irwin Mitchell’s profit boost as firm joins brand big-league [via The Law Society Gazette]
- Media giants Viacom and CBS to merge in latest mega-deal [via BBC News]
- Trump delays some tariffs on Chinese imports [via BBC News]
- Are the markets signalling that a recession is due? [via BBC News]
- New High Court judges all Oxbridge barristers [via The Law Society Gazette]
- 5 of the world’s biggest economies are at risk or recession [via CNN]
- ‘We can’t reach the women who need us’: LGBT YouTubers suing the tech giant for discrimination [via The Guardian]
- Members join queue of collapsed Ince creditors [via The Law Society Gazette]
- ‘Depressing’ super-exam reports fail the test, say law teachers [via The Law Society Gazette]