Disability pensioner who applied to be admitted to the Tasmanian jam roll ordered to pay costs … Application for admission withdrawn … Still, the objectors wanted their costs because they were acting in the “public interest” … No evidence about how much work they did … Applicant from out of town 

Judge Street’s findings in favour of Microsoft in an IP case overturned … Blistering appeal judgment from the Federal Court … Judgment in complex case given ex tempore by FCC judge … Speculative inferences … Liability for claims that were not made … The missing pathway … Go back, start again … Janek Drevikovsky reports 

Sandy Street downs the Commonwealth … Health report … Hong Kong knees-up … Eastman disaster ends in damages … Painstaking magisterial appointment … Florid epistle from Rod the God … Bar election policies … AG butts into the Palace Letters stand-off … Winston to schmooze ancient briefs … QC grief in Adelaide … Theodora reports 

UPDATE … No jurisdiction … Lawyer disciplinary actions thrown out by NCAT … Complaints improperly made … Procedural mishaps involving the Legal Services Commissioner, the Law Society and the Bar Association … Mounting costs awarded … Lawyers continue to trade without birchings … Remedial patch-up underway … Alan Zheng reports 

The poor old Administrative Appeals Tribunal has been trashed and stacked with the flotsam and jetsam of the Liberal Party … Cronyism … Peter Dutton’s “Australian values” … The defenestration of the administrative review functions of the Commonwealth … Investigative reporting by Inq laid bare the extent of the political rort 

Rebranding The Map’s briefs … Scrabbling for the royal garter gets underway in Tasmania … Clutching at illusory glitter … Peddling the same old malarkey … Status and money raise their unattractive heads 

Determining the number of real District Court judges … Numbers that never vary depending on who is included or excluded … Counter-terrorism provision that lapsed at sunset because no one was looking … Online application policy – one thing for JPs, another for GIPA requests … Polly Peck savours the vignettes of the NSW AG’s administration 

Queensland bar … Shortcomings fixed by lashings more bar readership … Professional misconduct where barrister persisted with appeal submissions that had no basis in fact … Inexperience … Promises not to practice family law again … Penny dropped late in the process … Out comes the damp lettuce leaf … Ghost of Rose Mary Wood