Wyvill gets a breather from NT appeal court … Grant Samuel rejigs Slater & Gordon … Barrister suggests that if his client had more money someone else would have been briefed … Bluto Watch 

Big defamation action grips Banana-Benders … Concrete Kings v Mouth from the South … Big Al Jones doubles down … Taxpayers pick up the tab for Can Do’s and Jiving Jarrod’s apology-free zone 

Special law to enforce respect for judges … Legislative loopiness … Closing the gap between contempt and disrespect 

Queensland bar council says national equitable briefing policy is potentially “divisive” … BAQ won’t play along with Law Council’s plans to improve the lot of women barristers … Qld. is different, says bar prez, Christopher Hughes … Lofty correspondence 

Dewigging transcript … An uplifting piece of transcript from May 24 is doing the rounds of Vic’s Bar n’ Grill … Justice Kevin Bell gets serious about wigs’ policy … Turning up wearing a wig is an insult to Earl Warren CJ … Briefs grovel and remove their hairpieces … Wig protocol a matter of law … Judge expresses his profound disappointment  

Defamation and sources … Nick Di Girolamo, Sydney lawyer, Liberal party operator and Obeid frontman withdraws from defamation trial against The Sydney Morning Herald … Court of Appeal orders up journalists’ sources in blow against investigative journalism 

Where there’s a will the High Court will find a way … Solicitor has no duty to protect beneficiary against estate-depleting relatives … Hannah Ryan court-side … News from The Map 

Queensland barrister makes grave and baseless allegations online about police officer … Defendant’s conduct improper and unjustified … Copper cleared by coroner … Triviality defence goes down in flames … Seb Tonkin reports