Don’t bring your affidavits to Justice Lee … Federal Court judge delivers a bollicking … In remembrance of Lord Buckmaster … Witnesses statements by affidavit … Herbert Smith Freehills in the frame … Inauthentic accounts of evidence … Leaky wells … Legal drafting supplants “real words” … Janek Drevikovsky reports  COMMENT: I don't understand the comment that all witnesses should read their affidavits aloud because how would that remedy the problem. Did he say that all witnesses should give their evidence orally? COMMENT: Does this mean that HH will only give ex tempore judgments from here on?

Window into a weird world … Sydney solicitor, the hero of anti-vaxers … Turning the wolves on a journalist seeking information … Harassment … Media lawyers at 10 paces … Unsuccessful litigation on behalf of vax refuseniks … Crowdfunding for High Court challenge … Whether funds held in trust … Alan Zheng reporting 

Suppression order sought but not granted … Legal Services Commissioner’s jurisdictional drama … Misconduct findings overturned by Court of Appeal … Application to suppress details rejected … Another suppression attempt with NCAT also failed … Feelings of despair … Less work … Snubbed … Huge expense … Law Reform Commission … Alan Zheng reports

Porsche driving head of equity being fitted for CJ robes … Willy or won’t he? – Alstergren favoured for Chuckles’ job … The Christian’s costly litigation spree … Biased judges survey … Wot’s going on at the NSW solicitors’ society? … Coincidental political allies appointed to IR gig … Sharks salute sharks … Theodora with Goings On

Back to pokey for Eddie Obeid … A fresh experience awaits Moses … Decades of villainy … Leading NSW crime figures slotted … Vindication for ICAC’s findings and rule of law … Despair for The Tamil … Obeid Snr cast as a “political prisoner” …  Time to crank-up the Free Eddie campaign  

UPDATE … Blunders by inexperienced Family Court judge … Need for dispatch to reeducation camp … Friends in high places … Precedent ignored … Edward Longshanks no help … Lengthy judgments with irrelevant citations … “Odd” … George Pell referenced … “Perplexing” … Ginger Snatch reports 

How liberty works … Trickle down conservative thoughts on free speech … Schism in the ranks … Law of Rulers Institute denied the implied freedom by a Sammy Griffith favourite … Reevaluation of Griffith’s legacy  COMMENT: Don't be too hard on Steward J. He did acknowledge that he was bound by the majority decisions in earlier cases and his observation was clearly obiter. Gleeson J participated in the Libertyworks majority, supporting the McCloy test and bringing the dissenting bloc down to two.

Nye neighs loudly at Circus Court judgment that did not get to grips with the evidence …  Twigs assembled for a “forensic bird’s nest” … Blots on the judicial escutcheon … AAT’s incompetence … Eight years later application remains unresolved … Justice Charlesworth finds more jurisdictional error in the case of an Iranian conscientious objector