The new COVID-19 tracker is under the auspices of Minister Stuart Robert … What could go wrong? … Problems with the proposed app … Prying police forbidden … How it works … Hacking is inevitable … A decentralised model would be less of a threat to privacy … Centralised server would be a vehicle for mass surveillance … The key issues clarified by Janek Drevikovsky 

Yarraside brief fights over solicitor’s bill … Failure to abide by court direction … Judicial review of costs order … Too much delay … The cruel clock … Health issues … Personal difficulties … General drama … Alan Zheng reports

No mad rush for de-rolling former AGS lawyer who diddled a trust fund … Offence in 2009 … Caught in 2014 … Pleaded guilty in 2016 … Out of the nick by 2018 … Struck off in 2020 … Wife “horrified” by husband’s offending … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

What protection visa? … Man held in immigration detention by the government after he had been granted a protection visa … Federal Court orders immediate release … Minister for Immigration birched in fulsome judicial rebuke … Ministerial defiance of the law … Disgraceful conduct … Habeas corpus application opposed by the minister on spurious grounds … Zoe Mitchell reports 

Car accident … Plaintiff’s fraudulent case … Farrago of lies … Deceit … Tentative orders for indemnity costs and to refer the plaintiff for criminal investigation … Committing offences while allegedly incapacitated … Priors … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

The “independent” bar goes cap-in-hand to the government … Game’s up … One dissenting voice above the parapet … Trying to prop-up the chambers working model … Turnover of bar staff … NSW Law Society in upheaval as a cabal seeks to change the constitution and sideline dissenting voices … Theodora reports 

Practising law may never be the same again … Powers of the state unlikely to be wound back … Unhappy remote experiences … Costs and time blowouts … Corona appeals … Lockouts … Home on the range … Theodora does the rounds 

Hilary Penfold’s vintage from 2011 … Dry and too much oak … Earlier ACT Court of Appeal birching uncovered … Respondent shot by the coppers … Damages judgment … Overly long and detailed reasons … Riddled with errors … Undermining public confidence in the judiciary … Artemus Jones reprises