Scerri stuff … Yarraside Supremo rebukes lawyers in over-egged intestacy case … Costs outrun the issues … Barrister contradicts himself … Lawyers sent to the Bureau de Spank … Seb Tonkin courtside  

Geoffrey Watson SC hung out to dry … Inside information about NSW bar’s disciplinary process leaked to the press … Counsel assisting chewed-up in ongoing News Corp war against ICAC 

Crown Law in Bananaland cannot act in industrial dispute against two of its employees … Acting as a self-represented litigant against its own staff … Everything happy at Crown Law … Lack of systems to handle conflict … Seb Tonkin reports 

What if Slater & Gordon had not floated … The downside of going public … Restructuring already underway … Litigation defendants seizing on S&G’s vulnerability 

After 30 years of litigation Wentworth v Rogers lives on … Another round in the country’s longest running courtroom drama … Costs awarded to Katherine Wentworth for 1985 damages action against her former husband 

South Australia – appointing auxiliary judges was the chief justice’s idea … Judicial appointments on the cheap … Bar n’ Grill up in arms … AG looking to merge trial divisions of the Supreme and District courts … Money, money, money 

Death rattle of the Carmody story … Secretly recorded CJ rant back in the news as Sgt Plod called in to investigate senior judge administrator … No need for Justice Byrne to pack his toothbrush 

Because of mounting tax problems solicitor keen to secure business by giving a misleading costs estimate to a client … Unsuccessful in the Land and Environment Court … Nominal damages because the client benefited from the expense of the litigation in subsequently getting ministerial approval for a quarry … No reliance on doubtful estimates of costs … Hannah Ryan catches the action