Pokie Palaces adopt suppression agenda for contempt crucification of dying man … Whistleblowing about money laundering … Law firm in barbed wire straddle … Whopping sums of money to run the Catholic Church’s “Melbourne Response” … Failure to print … Grief sweeps Vic’s Bar ‘n’ Grill over death of monarch … Theodora’s Notebook 

Slow progress from WA Supremo … Not as speedy as the judge would have liked … Heavy work … Claim of oppression … Rayney defamation decision still on ice … Further complications … The years roll by … Latest from Theodora 

Where’s the sunshine? … Citizens want to see their crooks in the stocks … Coalition demands further constraints on public hearings … The hurdle is already unnecessarily high … What reputational damage? … Max Shanahan reports  COMMENT: The sunshine is in a real court, on real evidence, with some ability to defend yourself. COMMENT: EMAIL: URL: typo in your rendition of s 73(1)

Jayne Jagot … A humble non-silk … She reached for the stars … A serious case of the smarts … Identified by Mark Dreyfus at least seven years ago … Significant judgments … High Court test in Chelmsford looming … Rarely without trousers … Theodora reports 

Appointments to AAT … Questions of constitutional invalidity … Pre-election Coalition gifts … Unsuitable appointments … Dreyfus responds … Former judges raise issues of legitimacy … Extended and overlapping terms … Theodora reports 

Department of bad looks … Defamation judge in WA refuses to step aside from a trial in which she had previously worked for the plaintiff’s counsel … Non-disclosure of prior working relationship … Cherry picking … Theodora reports 

Latest Simon Steward reversal … 6-0 finding by the High Court … Fourth time on the outer … What went wrong? … Selection process not up to scratch … Plus, the inquiry into Brother Scott’s multiple ministries … Fortunately, a retired member of the Saloon is available for the heavy lifting … Max Shanahan reports 

The war-torn justice system in Ukraine … Struggling to cope when courts are bombed … Judges and staff dislocated … Law firms shuttered … Expansion of state powers … War crimes … Collaboration with occupiers … Extraordinary circumstances … Max Shanahan reports