Fallout from the Brittany Higgins allegations and the derailed rape trial … A storm of defamation actions … Former alleged rapist and former minister want more court action … Pipelines to the press … Federal Court opens the suppression portal … Threats, complaints and investigations … Theodora reports 

Judge’s inability to complete the work as “quickly as I would have liked” … Latest in a string of slowcoach judgments … Supreme Court delays … Boilerplate explanations … Memory remains as fresh as a daisy … Groper reports 

Former High Court justice Pat Keane takes up a spot on Hong Kong’s final court … British judges bail out … Rule of law under constant assault … Overseas judges excluded from sensitive security cases … Political meddling with the HK legal profession … Lawyers flee … Max Shanahan reports 

Justinian’s review of lawyers and the law for the year just passed … 2022 – strangely memorable, yet forgettable … Few, if any, elephant stamps … Frantic activity by the new attorney general … News from the Foreign Desk … Law ‘n Order … Misconduct … The works, from Max Shanahan