Personal injury law shop Brydens having trouble producing an itemised bill of costs … A continuing difficulty … Lost file … Strange interpretation of the Legal Profession Act … Daniel Ahern reports 

Solicitor overcharged whistleblowing client … Cost assessment … Client charged $1.7 million … Breach of duty … Breach of trust account regulations … Nearly eight years on … It’s not over yet … Daniel Ahern is on the case

Family law … Letter writing skills … Unreferenced borrowings in overwrought missive to client’s husband … Writing under instructions … Sohini Mehta reports 

Filibuster on Bell questions at senate estimates … Judicial developments at The Map … Tidball – there’s a song in his heart … Worthwhile cause of the week 

Where are we with the other Royal Commission – the one on the detention of children in the Northern Territory? … Murdoch hacks furiously critical of the commission – so it must be on the right track … Reporting on crocodiles a top priority … Has the legal profession been too comfortable about youth injustice in the NT? … Daniel Ahern reports 

Federal copper who stalked his former girlfriend meets himself coming around corners … Various irreconcilable explanations in his applications for admission as a legal practitioner … ACT one day, Queensland the next … The naked photo … Catherine Holmes CJ gets to the bottom of it, as explained by Sohini Mehta 

Three recent family law cases explore the nebulous area of solicitor-client relationships …  Termination of retainer in protracted litigation … Solicitors required to hand over hundreds of boxes to new lawyers … Lien over the fruits of the litigation … Breach of trust in distribution of house sale proceeds … Solicitor whacked with indemnity costs …  The secretary who moved firms, but without the client’s confidential information … Sohini Mehta reports 

Paralegal firm nudges aside solicitors … Scottish government sued by former head of child sex abuse inquiry … British barrister’s Twitter tirades … Offshore developments