Calamity Sal … Another birching for Australia’s worst judge … No immunity for acting outside jurisdiction … A thorough wigging … Paltry damages of $309,450 … ABA looking to beefed-up protections for rotten judges … Time for Vasta to hand in his ticket … Ginger Snatch, an associate of judges, reports  COMMENT: EMAIL: URL: One wonders if the Queensland Government has to wear liability for acting in good faith on an order by a Federal judicial officer exercising Federal jurisdiction, that it doesn't say to the Commonwealth "build your own prisons"

Bookshelves Brandis lays it on thick for departing CJ … Overly wordy judicial frolics … NZ lawyers overworked, stressed and asking judges to be nice to them … Latest delays … Theodora reports 

Hot potato … Early leak of ACT criminal justice report … Cossack insists he made no errors and didn’t breach the Act … Wants the chief minister to reflect and grovel … Weighty correspondence released … Flaws in the glass 

More fodder from the delayed judgment mill … Judicial torpor … Two years and more to produce sausages … Extended intervals between two events … Who is keeping an eye on productivity rates?  COMMENT: There is a problem is conferring jurisdiction in more complex cases on a busy court, and for availing that wider jurisdiction. One of the early appointments to the then FMC said publicly that he had to do ex temps as far as possible, as trying to catch up reserved judgments would be problematic. If the case is too complex for an ex temp, perhaps it should not be in that place.

Miscarriage due to magistrate’s intransigence on accused’s language … Need for an interpreter … Strident views from the bench … Other meanings … Appeal … Role of WA courts’ Reconciliation Statement … Magistrate’s “demonstrated level of Aboriginal cultural competency” … From our Ringside Reporter  COMMENT: the possibility that the culturally experienced and aware magistrate was better able to understand than counsel or interpreter remains open. COMMENT: Thanks for drawing this wise judgment to our attention. Sometimes it is the appearance of injustice that is enough, as here. The punter likes to think he had a fair go.

Cheers … New appointments to the High Court announced from Canberra … Serious buttressing of brain power … Lads and lasses from New South Wales in the ascendency … The correct order restored … From High Court watcher Montague Gummov 

SCOOP … Waving, not drowning … Silk contestants at the starting line … Full list of NSW senior counsel applicants for 2023 … Annual beauty parade 

Open Justice … WA Supreme Court … Iron Lady’s suppression application nixed … Carving up Pilbara mining tenements … Litigation bonanza … Making hay for at least three months … Reputational harm and embarrassment … Information already in the public domain … Alan Zheng reports