Insipid movement at the Northern Territory Judicial Commission … Complaints against the NT chief justice and the court’s second most senior judge … Allegations of conflicts … Ducks on a small legal pond bumping into themselves … NT correspondent Buffalo Bruce reports 

On the federal front line … Liberal Party AAT appointment overlooks the fundamentals in a migration review case … Slap from upstairs … Street J and the line between efficiency and fairness … Trying to achieve both in a busy court … And – VCAT helps a barrister reveal herself … Theodora reports 

Salvatore Vasta’s “pumpkin eater” case overturned on appeal … Unscrambling secret meanings … Union fines reduced … Plus … A special judgment on reasons not to make a transcript available to a litigant …Sal’s latest from our Ringside Reporter 

Anonymous barrister acting for a father in custody dispute … Also a family friend of both the parties … Order to stop acting to protect the appearance of justice … More sensitivity, please … From our Ringside Reporter 

Muck up day … Judges out of school … Jokers on the tear … Pulled into line and told to stand with their noses to the wall … Justices Wilson and Harrison open their lunch boxes … Associate of judges Ginger Snatch reports 

Recusal process splits the Saloon … Who should consider a bias application? … All over the shop on judicial “ethics” … Challenge to the appearance of justice over its substance … Max Shanahan reports  COMMENT: For Edelman, "ethics are a lonely affair because they cannot be delegated to a committee … the single judge is the only person who can scrutinise their own knowledge and beliefs".

Yet when the ground is as always "apparet bias" the inner workings of the judge's psyche as a matter of logic, should be irrelevANT.

But we know "apparent" is vey often a means of being poilite, when applicants are told to be fearfu of leaving themagic word out.

WA Attorney General Quigley responds to criticism of his judicial appointments … Unfair to single out female solicitor appointees … Condemnation of anonymous insights … Unhappiness unabated … Delay dossier … Online advocacy for solicitors … A black swan moment … Theodora reports 

Mental ailments strike prominent crime solicitor … Teeth and leg problems … Unconvincing submissions from colourful medicos … Staff claiming unpaid money … Law shop disarray … Public protection out the window … Ostrich-like behaviour … Inability to open emails