Solicitors and women surging onto the bench in Western Australia … Old timers incandescent … Claims of inadequate trial experience for Supreme Court appointment … Male silks overlooked … Groper reports 

Independent National Security Legislation Monitor urges abolition of continuing detention orders … Risky risk assessment tool … Critical review suppressed by Home Affairs … Benbrika case … Disproportinate Brandis-era terror laws … Max Shanahan reports  COMMENT: People are getting a very sound bollicking in London at the moment, for suppressiing evidence that an accounting tool – used to predict theft essentially – was known to be flawed. See the "British Post Office scandal", at wiki. Why not here?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal

Vic’s Bar struggles with the Voice … Should there be a position at all? … Financial Review’s legal affairs man ticked off … Old grizzlies out of the cage … NSW bar run by “woke” mullahs … More kero on the flames … Peach Melba with Yarraside Yarns  

Law Society staff and councillors jostle for space on the ledges as more flee the premises … Regional Women Lawyers ruckus … Concentration of power alienates young lawyers and smaller firms … Escrow accounts for barristers create jitters … Prospective streamlined discipline process … Fresh hell … From our intrepid reporter Theodora 

Debra Mortimer … Coronation at the Federales … Career highlights … Opportunities taken … Great cases of our time … Champion of good causes … Animals and children … Theodora reports 

Latest round of judicial hand washing … Sal’s failed case transfer to the Feds … Lack of resources … Industrial relations, Nazi style … Perth lawyer off the hook in bikie-related false statement conspiracy … Groper reports from Perth  

Dramatic bust up of Adelaide law partnership … Booming business in Hong Kong … Lure of Mishcon de Reya … Hunt through the emails … Full Feds on the case … Fiduciary duties … Misleading and deceptive conduct … Max Shanahan reports

Attorney General Dreyfus’ recent agenda … Busy bee … Consultations … Roundtables … Reviews .. Reforms … Legislation … The Voice … Appointments … Speeches … Polly Peck tallies the score