Brandis with a pint near special spa establishment … Serious crime prevention not so serious … Tasmania looking for “layers” to serve on the Supremes … Charles Waterstreet’s celebrity press conference mysteriously cancelled … Judicial misbehaviour … Goings On with Theodora 

Dutton and News hacks take on the AAT, assisted by AG Brandis in the wings … Political attack on the integrity of the tribunal … Conflating terrorism with migration and refugee visa decisions … Misinformation abounds … Woeful times  COMMENT: "Dumb as dog shit", sounds like a fair assessment for so many of the Thin Blue Line. It must be frustrating for the many, many DPP lawyers who present cases that Police do not investigate. Take for example, the case of the gentleman who was charged with raping a lady in a lift. When it came to Committal, the defense, led by that great advocate Clive Steirn SC, handed up a CCTV video of the action in the lift, which showed the lady attacking the man. Needless to say, the whole matter was quickly dismissed with costs. The poor prosecutor told me he wanted to crawl under the Bar Table in shame. A report to COPPER Central to have the lady charged with making a false complaint was rejected. Imagine, charging a victim of sexual assault with making a false allegation, we couldn't possibility have that, now could we!? Not to mention the potential of criticizing such a great institution as NSW Police.

Bribery of Queensland mines minister … Solicitor not fit and proper to practice, but sufficiently fit and proper to stay on the jam roll … The case of a high flying lawyer and banana bending businessman whose wax wings melted … Lawyer who said he never wanted to practice again can now reapply after five years … Sohini Mehta reports 

Recent intriguing judgments from the NSW District Court … Copper in sexual relationship with a vulnerable witness … Lismore copper behaving badly … Teenagers and tabloid rag … Peta Leigh is courtside

Hannah Ryan in New York assembles the best and the brightest of the online legal commentariat … Intellectuals, pundits, provocateurs, investigative journalists … A fascinating hive of activity in the law space 

Trust in the legal system … Trust in politicians … Grovel from MPs removes charge of scandalising the Yarraside Court of Appeals … desperate politics … Keeping alive the “blaze of glory” … Home goal by Gorgeous George Brandis 

Rich and colourful parade of judiciary in Mt Hagen … Thousands of cases languish … Remorseless giant LexisNexis swallows another case law analytics business … Statelessness gets a handout … Department of Immigration’s unique interpretation of the Freedom of Information Act … Lawyer’s defamation appeal bites the dust 

St Paul’s College headless … College relents and signs-up for Sydney Uni “cultural review” … Dozy council and warden drop the ball in the face of another brat-frat outrage