Sleaze on the bench … Wandering hands … Half-baked apologies from sexually harassing judges … Professional boundaries violated … Claim that investigations not legitimate … Hiding behind legal mumbo jumbo … The penny that never drops 

God cancels judges’ birthdays … Freedom from religious violence … Victorian barristers told to be nice to each other … Pole positions for NSW CJ … Judge whacks silk for unworthiness … Theodora reports 

Silk gets unreserved by Map eatery … Brain drain at Syd’s Bar ‘n’ Grill … The ACT’s reserve bin … Theodora reports 

Sorry Sandy … Judicial friends take divergent paths … “Plainly wrong” … “High esteem” … Immigration assessments made prior to the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan … Ignoring the changed circumstances in the Islamic Emirate … Comity and “principle” … FCFC judges at sixes and sevens … Max Shanahan reports 

2021 down the gurgler … Recapping some easily forgettable moments before we’re entirely drowning in 2022 … Glimpses of Justinian’s restless news reports … A year of lawyers and the law 

Three decisions involving lawyer conduct brought up the rear in the year just gone … From Perth, Sydney and Melbourne … Public birching … Child porn, false allegations and failure to disclose … Eamonn Murphy reports 

NSW Court of Appeal protects offensive barrister … Identity kept under wraps for 20 years … Resignations and redundancies at the bar association, the law society and the AAT … Judge denounces boring dinner parties … Political hacks seeking credit for judicial appointment … Theodora reports  COMMENT: I propose a national conversation about a diversity of ritualised greetings, for any season.

The High Court in the 1930s … Judges bickering and distrustful of each other … Drawing on dairy notes, Gideon Haigh details the disharmony … Was this a period of peak judicial unhappiness … Justice in the hands of riven justices … C.N. Brown reporting