Bikie barrister put off the road … Memorising every page of the brief … No ticket, no trade … Licence cancelled … Subeta Vimalarajah reports

UPDATE … It’s NO again … Federal courts’ pay offer rejected … Strike action back on … Cases adjourned or delayed … Belated conciliation … Frustrated deadlock … People & Culture guru unable to break the deadlock 

Queensland bar election turmoil … Colditz replies … Cold shoulder for senate inquiry into contempt of court … Ructions in Adelaide as SA DPP flees bar association … Theodora reports 

Federal Courts’ staff mulling the latest enterprise offer … Management on a road show trying to sell the proposal with a mixture of lures and threats … Disruption accompanies work-to-rule … Northly winds … Waiting for pay day

Yarraside barristers go broke … Insouciant non-compliance … Tax man on the case … Run-ins with the stipes … Sequestration 

From Hornsby to Blacktown solicitors have been hauled in for birching by the disciplinary stipes … Forging a fee agreement and filching money for a trial that did not proceed … When a solicitor thought he could charge a commission before asking an estate’s beneficiaries … Fame & Character … Misery & Woe 

Prosecution hides evidence … The Map – where the Old Mates Club runs the island kingdom … Tina Huang and Charles Waterstreet … Weinsteins Downunder … When a personal relationship with a judge might create apprehension … Theodora reports 

Defamation … Shock verdict for plaintiff in Gayle v Fairfax … Justice Lucy McCallum reverses herself on “reasonableness” … Defendants say the trial was conducted unfairly … All rise – journalists told they have no priority for courtroom seats … School children being ushered by the “Rule of Law Institute” have rights too