A 74-strong band of elite Ukrainian musicians have assembled in Poland for a world tour. Before the group’s Proms debut, Rebecca Franks from The Times meets them in Warsaw.

From the feedback received, many of you have followed our reports of litigation by a leading barrister Allison Bailey who was discriminated against by senior colleagues over gender-critical comments made on social media. Last week they won their discrimination case over gender critical views.

And on the heels of the Bailey decision the UK government’s senior law officer has ordered her department’s officials to scrap diversity training that had become a “new orthodoxy to settle old scores”.

Alison Bailey claimed a ‘trans’ dispute led Stonewall to ‘insult’ this ‘lesbian barrister’. The Central London employment tribunal case has transfixed legal experts and the ultimate ruling is seen as the most important relating to transgender issues.

The war in Ukraine grinds on – and depressingly all the signs are that it will continue to do so with a significant casualty toll for some time to come. But the landmark legal event in the conflict over the last few days was last week’s life sentence for the first Russian convicted of war crimes in Ukraine since the war started.

Plea for Help. Last week this plea for help arrived in our email. Please lobby your MP for more action, more refugee allocations.

Allison Bailey accuses the charity of bullying the chambers into disciplining her and preventing her from getting work because of her so-called gender critical views. Stonewall and Garden Court Chambers deny any wrongdoing.

Former Speaker of the House of Representatives / Te Mana Whakawā o te Whare, Ross Robertson, now President of the Franklin Justices of the Peace Association with Gerard Winter receiving koha of a Paipera Tapu one of 843 especially printed and sent as a treasure to every Marae by new Justice of the Peace Grace Maraea van den Brink

The first black female Supreme Court justice has embraced the gender ideology that is alienating ordinary Americans, by Gerard Baker for The Times.

International investigations are underway into Russia's invasion of Ukraine. European Union leaders are denouncing Russia's actions as "massacres, atrocities, and genocides", while US President Joe Biden is calling for a war crimes trial.

There are many stories of ordinary New Zealanders who embarked on an adventure here at Gallipoli that, in many cases, cost them their lives. The incredible events of the Anzacs is a tale of harsh realities, courage, defeat, pride, and spirit in war. One such story told by the National Army Museum is that of 3/168 Staff Sergeant William Henry, DCM, New Zealand Medical Corps.

As the nation’s ‘administrator’, during the Governor General's absence, Willy Young gave this address at the 2018 national service in Wellington.

President Biden has nominated the first African-American woman to sit on the US Supreme Court in a move that was denounced by the most senior Republican as “the favoured choice of far-left dark money”.

So many of you have asked how you can help. The IAWJ campaign is now live at AfghanWomenJudgesFund.org.

An interesting trial was heard at the Supreme Court in the United Kingdom this month. Miss Boudica from East Anglia, who also goes by the name of Boadicea, was charged with being a terrorist under Section 1 of the Terrorism Act 2000, a surprising legal move since it came into force 1,940 years after she died.

We were very heartened with some good news out of Afghanistan on 26 October 2021. The IAJ General Secretariat told us a humanitarian transit corridor for Afghan women, female judges, judges, and members of parliament and their families opened up. The work of the IAJ and IAWJ supported by what little effort we can muster means a lot.

Mistakes matter in law, even the smallest ones. What would happen if a small but substantively meaningful typographical error appeared in the earliest published version of a U.S. Supreme Court opinion and remained uncorrected for several decades in versions of the decision published by the two leading commercial companies and in several online databases?