Holding judicial office … When does it take effect? … Letter of appointment … Blood oath … Upper Tribunal appointment in the Old Dart … Former Labor politician underwater in salary gambit … From FCA roundsman Phil Cake

Handsy Heydon goes to Perth … Celebrity tour … Conferenceville … Dicey’s job application speech from 2002 … Other High Court judges mocked as “vegetables” … Mason CJ ridiculed … Speech bowdlerised for public consumption … Courage of conviction MIA … From our National Affairs Correspondent 

Night of the long knives … Lakeside in Canberra … ACT Law Society upheaval over governance changes … Bodies carted out of the council room … Blood on the carpet … Fraught litigation another distraction … From Gang Gang

SCOOP … Merits findings by the ACT Bar Council … Complaints against former DPP Shane Drumgold unlikely to amount to professional misconduct or unprofessional conduct … Major year-long investigation assisted by Hicksons … Further blow to adverse findings by Sofronoff and fatwah against Drumgold by The Australian

Green, blue and red computers … The labyrinthine path to education in pokey … Patchwork arrangements that freeze out prisoners from getting a degree or certificate … Dark age policy that keeps felons in their place … Veronica Lenard reports

Water Softener and the Planet … Further details of the width and depth of their relationship … Chief Justice of the ACT grants Justinian’s application for access to more documents … A barrage of text messages and phone calls throughout the Drumgold investigation … Collated reporting … More on Sofronoff and Albrechtsen

Sen. Reynolds’s (Lib. WA) defamation case … Opening shots … Western Australia, land of the stolen GST and big libel awards … Trial judge Paul Tottle … What’s next for Brittany Higgins … Research by Stephen Murray