UPDATE … Porter wants Vasta for the Family Court … Standby as more critical judgments about Sal are in the appeal pipeline … Two-Wigs’ special envoy for case management has trouble managing his own cases … Not only Stradford & Stradford, now there’s Navarro & Navarro … The terrible legacy of Soapy Brandis 

Ghostly apparition of shuffled off chief justice … Federal Court vacancy in Perth … NT’s family friendly ICAC … “The troubles” are over for former Clutz warrior … Election deadline for appointments … Lawyer sacked over boozy partner allegations … Theodora reports 

Lawyers are eating their Brexit … How three UK based global firms are dealing with clients’ Brexit phobia … England quakes while lawyers open the picnic basket … Too much marketing … Too little light … Janek Drevikovsky files from Kathmandu 

Supreme Court of NSW birches Law Society for bringing a misconceived misconduct allegation against a lawyer … Witnessing a signature for a child’s passport application … Failure to disclose relevant material … Jurisdictional error … Undue delay … Bureau de Spank gets spanked 

Melbourne briefs sue DLA Piper for fees … A large sum outstanding … Claim that barristers were only told after they had done the work that they could not be paid until the firm was paid by the clients … Action in the Federal Court 

UPDATE … Beazley P moves to Government House … Andrew Bell SC anointed as the new P … Various hopefuls shattered … Medical specialists rolling in it … Silly season in Adelaide … Theodora reports  

Fallout … Defamation case from 2000 that ran off the tracks … Legal stupidity … Excruciating manoeuvring … Bankruptcy … Delay … Despair … 18 years in the works … All in the ACT Supreme Court … Janek Drevikovsky on the case 

NT Law & Order Society chasing senior Darwin silk … Federal Court rejects stay of Law Society complaint against Alistair Wyvill SC … Ancient political saga … Wild ways of the Top End … Buffalo Bruce reports