The Bundle: social networking, Israel and Ed Miliband

The law and social networking came head to head again this week, with Neil Rose encouraging lawyers to get online and Afua Hirsch warning jurors and criminal defendants not to . And Israel was in the spotlight, as Joshua Rozenberg questioned the remarks of a judge who described Gaza as "hell on earth" before a jury went on to acquit activists accused of causing criminal damage to a company involved in the production of Israeli fighter jets. Meanwhile, Maurice Mendelson QC paid tribute to Shabtai Rosenne , the respected international lawyer who died last week, and who up to his death had been taking part in the commission of inquiry into the Gaza flotilla raid. This week's top UK stories • Tony Blair received early torture warning, court told • Human rights lawyers condemn English tests for spouses coming to UK • Former prisons chief attacks Jack Straw over penal reform stance This week's top stories from around the world • Roma ultimatum given to France by EU: allow free movement or face court • Chinese police investigate illegal jails 'where complaining citizens are held' • Teresa Lewis given lethal injection despite protests over low IQ This week's top comment, features and best of the blogs • Charlotte Gore: How liberal is Ed Miliband? • Joshua Rozenberg: Battered women who kill to be main beneficiaries as homicide law changes • Rizwaan Sabir: Control orders are dehumanising, abusive and should be scrapped What you said: best comments from our readers • On Rizwaan Sabir's Liberty central post on control orders , Spaniel says Whilst control orders are in place we, the general public, have no way of assessing the effectiveness of those we pay to "keep us safe". We have to accept that they are doing a good job. If they had to put their evidence before the courts we could see just how good they are. Or maybe that's why the control orders were thought of in the first case. • On Alan Travis's article about former prisons chief, Martin Narey's attack on Jack Straw , mustspeak says Jack Straw is typical of the infamous Blair government. When in government he was able to do nothing other than swell the prison population to bursting whilst at the same time presiding over a growing crime rate and turning soft criminals into hardened thugs.