High Court’s tax guru overturned by the High Court … The final word on tax intricacies … Interests of justice and disclosure of assets … Running balance accounts and curly questions … Government looking for “reliability” 

Complaint about a lawyer’s delays, fees and cost agreements … Bureau de Spank finds complaint not entirely outside statutory limitation … Tas CJ throws out judicial review … Absurd situation … Anonymity … No contempt … The Map … Alan Zheng reports 

The Prothonotary v Campbell … The upstanding Tamworth lawyer who fell from grace … Law Society’s lame efforts at purging the profession … Plundering a deranged client’s wealthy estate … False swearing and perjury … Attempt to cover-up moral and ethical lapse … Greed got the better of an “unimpeachable” character 

Gold Coast money dreams … Trading-Gambling scheme comes unglued … Investors cleaned out … Identity of conman hidden … False and misleading conduct … Solicitor aware of misrepresentations … Various squirrelling activities … Appeal fails … Anna Kretowicz on the case 

Life in lockdown proving perilous for parties in Willy Alstergren’s speedy callover regime for the Family and Circuit Courts … Callovers for cases already resolved or in their final stages … Pandemonium  

WA bar president pens feisty free-speech letter to preposterous backbench noise machine … Demands that silk be stripped of gongs … Loose thinking … WA bar reaches out in support of the right to express offensive views … Groper reports

What’s going on? … Another precious tribunal decision protecting the home side … Suppression order for a former solicitor with health issues … Growing retinue of lawyers with psychological issues … Doom beckons if identity is revealed … Hanging by a threat … Janek Drevikovsky reports

Expensive family law shop divorce … Negligent advice to stroke partner unable to work … Incomplete advice … NSW CA shaves nearly half-a-million from Rothman J’s award of damages … Commercial law firm still up for about $1 million in damages … Misery … Janek Drevikovsky reports