The slow growing variety … Climate litigation … Duty of care … Sharma case … Full Feds reluctant to meddle with minister’s coal mine approval … Assumption that politicians can make “wise policy” … More climate cases in the wings … Torres Strait case … Call for bold politicians and brave judges … Max Shanahan reports  COMMENT: NZSC just gave leave in Smith v Fonterra – https://www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases/2022/2022-NZSC-35.pdf

UK Supremos flee Hong Kong’s top appeal court … Judicial independence in the hands of Australian retirees … Catching Collaery … Preposterous post-nominals … AAT gets a top-notch Callinan … Peace breaks out at Vic’s bar … Theodora reports 

Tax turmoil … Computer problems … Avoidance disorder … Chronology of mistimed events … Clinging to the jam roll … Client work prioritised … Distinction between personal and professional competence … Max Shanahan reports 

Tom-toms from Brisbane’s Bugle … A story without context … “ALP buddies on the bench” … Mix-master on top speed … The other side of politics even more culpable … Merit and the Old Mates Act 

The Russian judiciary … How the Kremlin tamed the judges … Rule of the state is the same as the rule of law … Artful selection of the “right” people … The Kremlin always wins …  Londongrad and rivers of looted rubles 

Another top flight management executive leaves the AAT … Staff attrition … Morale and harmony unravelled by political picks … Review of selection process … Accountability … Polly Peck reports 

The war in Ukraine crashes head-on into NSW’s ICAC … The Tamil on fire … Analogies stretched … Weird newspaper column … Important bits missing … The Law of Rulers goes troppo 

The new chief justice of Queensland … Biographical details … Empathy and smarts … From legal secretary to lead singer with the Supremes … Sir Terence O’Rort reports from Brisbane